A fundamental limitation of small diameter Single-Walled carbon nanotube Synthesis-a scaling rule of the carbon nanotube yield with catalyst volume

Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2633-2641

  Sakurai, Shunsuke ^a,b   Inaguma, Masayasu ^b   Futaba, Don N ^a,b   Yumura, Motoo ^a,b   Hata, Kenji ^a,b,c  

^a Technology Research Association for Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes TASC   (Japan)

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

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Catalyst array; Single walled carbon nanotube; Synthsis

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION RATES; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; LIMITING PROCESS; RATE-LIMITING PROCESS; SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNT); STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SYNTHSIS;

ATOMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CATALYSTS;

EID: 84881301110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma6072633     Document Type: Article

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