Effect of catalyst pretreatment on chirality-selective growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5773-5781

  Fouquet, Martin ^a   Bayer, Bernhard C ^a   Esconjauregui, Santiago ^a   Thomsen, Christian ^b   Hofmann, Stephan ^a   Robertson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST PRETREATMENT; CHIRAL CONTROL; CHIRAL DISTRIBUTION; CHIRALITY DISTRIBUTION; EFFECT OF CATALYST; HYDROCARBON SOURCES; MODEL CATALYSTS; TUBE DIAMETERS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CATALYSTS;

EID: 84897850488     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4085348     Document Type: Article

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