Chirality-specific growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on solid alloy catalysts

Nature

Volumn 510, Issue 7506, 2014, Pages 522-524

  Yang, Feng ^a   Wang, Xiao ^a   Zhang, Daqi ^a   Yang, Juan ^a   Luo, Da ^a   Xu, Ziwei ^b   Wei, Jiake ^c   Wang, Jian Qiang ^d   Xu, Zhi ^c   Peng, Fei ^a   Li, Xuemei ^e   Li, Ruoming ^a   Li, Yilun ^a   Li, Meihui ^a   Bai, Xuedong ^c   Ding, Feng ^b   Li, Yan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; CARBON; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOTUBE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TUNGSTEN;

ALLOY; CATALYSIS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; OPTIMIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GROWTH; MELTING POINT; NANOCATALYST; NANOFABRICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLID; VAPOR;

EID: 84903482900     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13434     Document Type: Article

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