Effect of the added amount of organically-modified montmorillonite on the catalytic carbonization of polypropylene into cup-stacked carbon nanotubes

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 225, Issue , 2013, Pages 798-808

  Gong, Jiang ^a,b   Liu, Jie ^a   Jiang, Zhiwei ^a   Wen, Xin ^a   Chen, Xuecheng ^a   Mijowska, Ewa ^c   Wang, Yanhui ^a   Tang, Tao ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Combined catalysis; Cup stacked carbon nanotubes; NiO; Organically modified montmorillonite; Polypropylene

Indexed keywords

COMBINED CATALYSIS; D. TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES (TEM); DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; NIO; ORGANICALLY MODIFIED MONTMORILLONITE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; THERMAL GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CARBONIZATION; CATALYSIS; COALESCENCE; DEGRADATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBONS; NANOPARTICLES; PHASE STRUCTURE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84877338239     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.03.112     Document Type: Article

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