High-speed in situ X-ray scattering of carbon nanotube film nucleation and self-organization

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5091-5101

  Meshot, Eric R ^a,f   Verploegen, Eric ^b,c   Bedewy, Mostafa ^a   Tawfick, Sameh ^a   Woll, Arthur R ^d   Green, Katherine S ^e   Hromalik, Marianne ^e,g   Koerner, Lucas J ^e,h   Philipp, Hugh T ^e   Tate, Mark W ^e   Gruner, Sol M ^d,e   Hart, A John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^e Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^f IMEC   (Belgium)

^g STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; catalyst; chemical vapor deposition; dewetting; kinetics; particle; self organization; X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING CONDITION; CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; CARBON SOURCE; CATALYST PARTICLES; CNT FILMS; COLLECTIVE EFFECTS; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; DE-WETTING; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; FE CATALYST; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; GROWTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH-DENSITY ARRAYS; HIGH-SPEED; IN-SITU; ORIENTATION DATA; PIXEL ARRAYS; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; RAPID PROCESS; REAL TIME; REDUCING ATMOSPHERE; SELF-ORGANIZATION; SELF-ORGANIZATION PROCESS; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME-RESOLVED; TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY SCATTERING; X-RAY SCATTERING INTENSITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ENZYME KINETICS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); GROWTH KINETICS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SCATTERING; VAPORS; X RAYS;

X RAY SCATTERING;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X-RAYS;

EID: 84862860613     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300758f     Document Type: Article

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