The influence of bimetallic catalyst composition on single-walled carbon nanotube yield

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1044-1050

  Chiang, Wei Hung ^a,b   Sankaran, R Mohan ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-GROWN PRODUCTS; ATOMIC SCALE; BIMETALLIC CATALYSTS; CARBON PRECIPITATION; CARBON SOLUBILITY; FE CONTENT; FLOATING CATALYST METHOD; HIGH YIELD; LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION; MEAN DIAMETER; MULTI-WALLED;

CARBON; CATALYSTS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84155170814     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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