Importance of diameter control on selective synthesis of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 8564-8572

  Li, Jinghua ^a   Ke, Chung Ting ^a   Liu, Kaihui ^b   Li, Pan ^a   Liang, Sihang ^b   Finkelstein, Gleb ^a   Wang, Feng ^b   Liu, Jie ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

diameter control; Fe W nanoclusters; selective etching; semiconducting; single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; ETCHING; IRON ALLOYS; NANOCATALYSTS; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOTUBES;

DIAMETER CONTROL; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; ETCHANT CONCENTRATIONS; METALLIC SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; SELECTIVE ETCHING; SEMICONDUCTING; WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84906704619     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503265g     Document Type: Article

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