Growth kinetics and growth mechanism of ultrahigh mass density carbon nanotube forests on conductive Ti/Cu supports

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 15440-15447

  Sugime, Hisashi ^a   Esconjauregui, Santiago ^a   D'Arsié, Lorenzo ^a   Yang, Junwei ^a   Makaryan, Taron ^a,b   Robertson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

catalyst nanoparticles; chemical vapor deposition; Co Mo cocatalyst; low temperature growth; sputtering

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COBALT ALLOYS; COPPER ALLOYS; FORESTRY; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCATALYSTS; SPUTTERING; TEMPERATURE; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

BASE-GROWTH MECHANISM; CATALYST NANO PARTICLES; CATALYST PARTICLES; COCATALYST; GROWTH MECHANISMS; GROWTH TERMINATIONS; LOW TEMPERATURE GROWTH; SUBSTRATE SURFACE;

GROWTH KINETICS;

EID: 84907821748     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504048h     Document Type: Article

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