Optical investigation of carbon nanotube agglomerate growth on single catalyst particles

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 234, Issue , 2013, Pages 74-79

  Voelskow, Kristian ^a   Nickelsen, Lena ^a   Becker, Michael J ^b   Xia, Wei ^b   Muhler, Martin ^b   Kunz, Ulrich ^a   Weber, Alfred P ^a   Turek, Thomas ^a  

^a Institute of Chemical Process Engineering   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agglomerate growth; Cobalt catalyst; Multiwalled carbon nanotubes; Single particle observation

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COBALT CATALYST; ETHENE CONCENTRATIONS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (MWCNTS); NANOTUBE AGGLOMERATES; OPTICAL INVESTIGATION; REACTION TEMPERATURE; SINGLE PARTICLE;

AGGLOMERATION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ETHYLENE; EXPERIMENTS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CATALYSTS;

EID: 84884302994     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.08.068     Document Type: Article

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