Fabrication of tin-filled carbon nanofibres by microwave plasma vapour deposition and their in situ heating observation by environmental transmission electron microscopy

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tokunaga, Tomoharu ^a   Kanematsu, Takumi ^a   Ito, Takahumi ^b   Ota, Takahisa ^a   Hayashi, Yasuhiko ^c   Sasaki, Katsuhiro ^a   Yamamoto, Takahisa ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heating; In situ ETEM; Metal filled CNF; Nanofibre

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFIBERS; FABRICATION; HEATING; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROWAVES; NANOFIBERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

CARBON NANOFIBRES; CHEMICAL DEPOSITION; DISORDERED CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAPHITE LAYERS; IN-SITU HEATING; MICROWAVE PLASMA; VAPOUR DEPOSITION;

TIN;

EID: 84922747041     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-302     Document Type: Article

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