The reason for the low density of horizontally aligned ultralong carbon nanotube arrays

Carbon

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 232-238

  Zhang, Rufan ^a   Xie, Huanhuan ^a   Zhang, Yingying ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Jin, Yuguang ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Qian, Weizhong ^a   Wei, Fei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AREAL DENSITIES; BASE-GROWTH MECHANISM; CATALYST NANOPARTICLE; CATALYST REGION; HIGH PROCESSING TEMPERATURES; LOW DENSITY; ULTRALONG CARBON NANOTUBES;

FLOW OF GASES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOPARTICLES; SUBSTRATES;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 84869509781     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.09.025     Document Type: Article

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