Controlled synthesis of carbon nanostructures using aligned ZnO nanorods as templates

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5472-5480

  Mbuyisa, Puleng ^a   Bhardwaj, Sunil P ^b   Rigoni, Federica ^c   Carlino, Elvio ^b   Pagliara, Stefania ^c   Sangaletti, Luigi ^c   Goldoni, Andrea ^d   Ndwandwe, Muzi ^a   Cepek, Cinzia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

^b LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^d SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED ZNO NANORODS; CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES; CHEMIRESISTORS; CONTROLLED SYNTHESIS; EX SITU; HIGH DENSITY; IN-SITU; POROUS CARBONS; PROCESS TEMPERATURE; SUBSTRATE INTERFACE; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; X RAY PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ZNO NANOROD;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DIAMONDS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

NANORODS;

EID: 84866374729     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.07.034     Document Type: Article

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