Unexpectedly high yield carbon nanotube synthesis from low-activity carbon feedstocks at high concentrations

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3150-3157

  Kimura, Hiroe ^a,c   Goto, Jundai ^a   Yasuda, Satoshi ^a   Sakurai, Shunsuke ^a   Yumura, Motoo ^a   Futaba, Don N ^a   Hata, Kenji ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

carbon feedstocks; carbon nanotube; CNT; single walled carbon nanotube; SWCNT; SWNT

Indexed keywords

CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; CARBON FEEDSTOCK; CARBON NANOTUBE SYNTHESIS; CARBON NANOTUBES (CNT); CNT; SATURATED HYDROCARBONS; SWCNT; SWNT;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ETHYLENE; FEEDSTOCKS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON;

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE;

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

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

EID: 84876540410     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305513e     Document Type: Article

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