Observations of carbon nanotube oxidation in an aberration-corrected environmental transmission electron microscope

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2566-2572

  Koh, Ai Leen ^a   Gidcumb, Emily ^b   Zhou, Otto ^b,c   Sinclair, Robert ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

aberration corrected TEM; carbon nanotubes; environmental TEM; oxidation

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; ENVIRONMENTAL TEM; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; GRAPHENE LAYERS; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; INNER WALLS; OXIDATION PROCESS;

GRAPHENE; OXIDATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HEAT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VACUUM;

HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VACUUM;

EID: 84875682002     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305949h     Document Type: Article

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