Synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes over a spin-coated Fe catalyst in an ethanol-PEG colloidal solution

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 960-967

  Seah, Choon Ming ^a   Chai, Siang Piao ^b   Ichikawa, Satoshi ^c   Mohamed, Abdul Rahman ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ETHANOL; COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS; DECOMPOSITION OF METHANE; FE CATALYST; IRON IONS; IRON NANOPARTICLES; IRON NITRATES; OH GROUP; PEG-400; PIRANHA SOLUTIONS; SILICON OXIDE SUBSTRATES;

ETHANOL; HYDROGEN BONDS; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; METAL IONS; METHANE; MICELLES; NANOPARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON WAFERS; SURFACE TENSION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84155166798     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.09.059     Document Type: Article

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