Carbon-metal interfaces analyzed by aberration-corrected TEM: How copper and nickel nanoparticles interact with MWCNTs

Micron

Volumn 72, Issue , 2015, Pages 52-58

  Ilari, Gabriele M ^a,b   Hage, Fredrik S ^c   Zhang, Yucheng ^a   Rossell, Marta D ^a   Ramasse, Quentin M ^c   Niederberger, Markus ^b   Erni, Rolf ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Copper; Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Interfaces; Nickel; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; COPPER; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); METAL NANOPARTICLES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOPARTICLES; NICKEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YARN;

ABERRATION CORRECTED TEM; EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; METAL DEPOSITION; NICKEL NANOPARTICLES; RE-HYBRIDIZATION; WETTING BEHAVIOR;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84926028179     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2015.03.004     Document Type: Article

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