Growth of all-carbon horizontally aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes nucleated from fullerene-based structures

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-6

  Ibrahim, Imad ^a,b   Zhang, Yang ^a   Popov, Alexey ^a   Dunsch, Lothar ^a   Büchner, Bernd ^a,b   Cuniberti, Gianaurelio ^b   Rümmeli, Mark H ^a,b  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalyst free SWCNT; CVD; Fullerene nucleate CNT; Horizontally aligned SWCNT

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FULLERENES; NANOTUBES;

ALIGNED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; CARBON CATALYSTS; CATALYST-FREE; CURRENT CAPACITY; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; HORIZONTALLY ALIGNED SWCNT; INITIAL PREPARATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS);

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84881257144     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-265     Document Type: Article

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