Aerosol feeding of catalyst precursor for CNT synthesis and highly conductive and transparent film fabrication

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 255, Issue , 2014, Pages 134-140

  Reynaud, Olivier ^a   Nasibulin, Albert G ^a,b   Anisimov, Anton S ^c   Anoshkin, Ilya V ^a   Jiang, Hua ^a   Kauppinen, Esko I ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c Canatu Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Conductive; Flexible; ITO replacement; Transparent

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; ETHYLENE; OPTICAL FILMS; ORGANOMETALLICS; THIN FILMS;

CATALYST PRECURSORS; CONDUCTIVE; CONDUCTIVE THIN FILMS; DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; FLEXIBLE; HYDROGEN ATMOSPHERE; ITO REPLACEMENT; TRANSPARENT;

FABRICATION;

EID: 84903747083     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.06.082     Document Type: Article

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