Effect of sulfur on enhancing nitrogen-doping and magnetic properties of carbon nanotubes

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Cui, Tongxiang ^a   Lv, Ruitao ^a   Huang, Zheng hong ^a   Kang, Feiyu ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ENCAPSULATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETISM; NITROGEN; SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIALS; SULFUR; CARBON NANOTUBES;

GROWTH ATMOSPHERE; MAGNETIC DATA; NITROGEN-DOPED; NITROGEN-DOPING; SOFT MAGNETIC PROPERTIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84255214269     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-77     Document Type: Article

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