Growth kinetics of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays in clean oxygen-free conditions

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 9602-9610

  In, Jung Bin ^a   Grigoropoulos, Costas P ^a   Chernov, Alexander A ^b   Noy, Aleksandr ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; CVD growth; growth kinetics; impurity removal

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CARBON; BASIC PRINCIPLES; CARBON FEEDSTOCK; ETHYLENE PRESSURE; GAS-PHASE REACTIONS; GROWTH TERMINATIONS; HYDROGEN GAS; IMPURITY REMOVAL; MAIN PROCESS; PROCESS GAS; PRODUCTION RATES; PURIFIED GAS; TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

AIR PURIFICATION; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ETHYLENE; GASES; HYDROGEN; KINETICS; REMOVAL; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

GROWTH KINETICS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84555169256     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2028715     Document Type: Article

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