Functionalization of aligned carbon nanotubes to enhance the performance of fuel cell

Energies

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6476-6486

  Liu, Jingbo ^a   Yuan, Yuan ^b   Bashir, Sajid ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^b Texas Commission on Environmental Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes arrays; Chemical vapour deposition; Electrochemistry; Nanocharacterization; Post functionalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892509885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en6126476     Document Type: Article

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