Microstructures of carbon nanofilaments growing on graphite nanosheets

Micro and Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 386-388

  Lu, H F ^a   Kuo, W S ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ATOMS; CARBON NANOFIBRES; CARBON NANOFILAMENTS; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; GRAPHITE NANO-SHEETS; GRAPHITIC STRUCTURES; INITIAL DEPOSITIONS; MULTI-WALLED; MULTI-WALLED CNT; NANO-CARBON; NATURAL GRAPHITE; NICKEL NANOPARTICLES;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOSHEETS;

GRAPHITE;

CARBON NANOFIBER; CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NICKEL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NANOCATALYST; VAPOR;

EID: 84856692557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2010.0093     Document Type: Article

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