Filled Carbon Nanotubes: (X@CNTs)

Carbon Meta-Nanotubes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 225-271

  Sloan, Jeremy ^a   Monthioux, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs); CCVD, electric arc methods; Dimensions of nanotubes; Field emitters; Filled CNTs: (X@CNTs); Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations; SWCNTs filling, with compounds; SWCNTs, DWCNTs and MWCNTs; X@CNTs synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867894275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119954743.ch5a     Document Type: Chapter

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