Influence of total gas flow on carbon nanotube forests synthesised by water-assisted chemical vapour deposition

Micro and Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 779-782

  Liang, Youxuan ^a   Jiang, Chuan ^a   Zhao, Bin ^a   Yang, Junhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE HEIGHT; CATALYST LIFETIME; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; CRYSTALLINITIES; FE CATALYST; GROWTH YIELD; NANOTUBE FORESTS; SYNTHESISED;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; FLOW OF GASES; VAPORS;

FORESTRY;

CARBON NANOTUBE; IRON; WATER;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; GAS FLOW; KINETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; VAPOR;

CARBON; FORESTRY; VAPORS;

EID: 84889005031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2013.0526     Document Type: Article

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