Catalytic conversion of graphene into carbon nanotubes via gold nanoclusters at low temperatures

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 501-511

  Dervishi, Enkeleda ^a   Bourdo, Shawn ^a   Driver, Joshua A ^a   Watanabe, Fumiya ^a   Biris, Alexandru R ^b   Ghosh, Anindya ^c   Berry, Brian ^c   Saini, Viney ^a   Biris, Alexandru S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ISOTOPIC AND MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^c University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; chemical vapor deposition; gold nanoparticles; grapheme; radio frequency heating excitation

Indexed keywords

AU NANOPARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CATALYTIC CONVERSION; CATALYTIC PROCESS; CATALYTIC REACTIONS; CHEMICAL VAPOR; GOLD NANOCLUSTER; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GRAPHEME; GRAPHENE LAYERS; HIGH ACTIVITY; LOW TEMPERATURES; RADIO FREQUENCY HEATING/EXCITATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; GOLD DEPOSITS; GRAPHENE; NANOPARTICLES;

GOLD;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GOLD; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COLD; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; COLD TEMPERATURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84856132914     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203836q     Document Type: Article

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