Boron-mediated nanotube morphologies

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 7800-7805

  Nicholls, Rebecca J ^a   Aslam, Zabeada ^a   Sarahan, Michael C ^b   Koós, Antal ^a   Yates, Jonathan R ^a   Nellist, Peter D ^a   Grobert, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

boron multiwalled nanotubes; EELS; STEM

Indexed keywords

B INCORPORATION; BONDING STATE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; HETEROATOMS; IN-SITU STUDY; INHOMOGENEITIES; MULTI-WALLED NANOTUBES; NANOFACTORIES; NANOTUBE MORPHOLOGY; OUTER LAYER; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STEM; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; TEM ANALYSIS;

BORON; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

BORON; NANOTUBE;

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

BORON; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84866674417     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301770b     Document Type: Article

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