Controllable bulk growth of few-layer graphene/ single-walled carbon nanotube hybrids containing Fe@C nanoparticles in a fluidized bed reactor

Carbon

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 554-563

  Zhao, Meng Qiang ^a   Peng, Hong Jie ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Huang, Jia Qi ^a   Tian, Gui Li ^a   Tang, Cheng ^a   Hu, Ling ^a   Jiang, Hai Rong ^a   Cai, Hong Ying ^a   Yuan, Hong Xia ^a   Wei, Fei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; BINARY ALLOYS; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; FLUIDIZED BED FURNACES; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GRAPHENE; IRON; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; SUPERSATURATION; TERNARY ALLOYS;

CATALYST PRECURSORS; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; FLUIDIZED BED REACTORS; GRAPHITIZATION DEGREE; LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDES; LAYERED DOUBLE OXIDE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; TOTAL PORE VOLUME;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84892798549     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.10.028     Document Type: Article

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