Tailoring gas sensing properties of multi-walled carbon nanotubes by in situ modification with Si, P, and N

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2816-2823

  Koós, Antal A ^a   Nicholls, Rebecca J ^a   Dillon, Frank ^a   Kertész, Krisztián ^b   Biró, László P ^b   Crossley, Alison ^a   Grobert, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FERROCENES; GAS SENSING; GAS SENSING PROPERTIES; GAS SENSITIVITY; IN-SITU; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; LOW COSTS; POST PROCESSING; SIMPLE METHOD; TRIPHENYL PHOSPHINES;

CHEMICAL DETECTION; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTS; GAS DETECTORS; NANOTUBES;

SILICON;

EID: 84859591203     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.02.047     Document Type: Article

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