Growth of high-density horizontally aligned SWNT arrays using Trojan catalysts

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hu, Yue ^a   Kang, Lixing ^a,b   Zhao, Qiuchen ^a   Zhong, Hua ^c   Zhang, Shuchen ^a   Yang, Liangwei ^a   Wang, Zequn ^a   Lin, Jingjing ^a   Li, Qingwen ^b   Zhang, Zhiyong ^c   Peng, Lianmao ^c   Liu, Zhongfan ^a   Zhang, Jin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

CARBON; CATALYST; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CATALYST; CONDUCTANCE; DENSITY; ENTROPY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NANOARRAY; NANOCATALYSIS; NANOCATALYST; NANOFABRICATION; REDUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE NANOARRAY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TROJAN CATALYST; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84923036757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7099     Document Type: Article

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