Helical and Dendritic Unzipping of Carbon Nanotubes: A Route to Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Nanoribbons

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 5833-5845

  Zehtab Yazdi, Alireza ^a   Chizari, Kambiz ^a   Jalilov, Almaz S ^b   Tour, James ^b,c   Sundararaj, Uttandaraman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bamboo structures; helical dendritic unzipping mechanisms; nitrogen doped graphene nanoribbons; nitrogen doped multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BAMBOO; CARBON; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GRAPHENE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANORIBBONS; NITROGEN; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; YARN;

ANNEALING CONDITION; ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; BAMBOO STRUCTURES; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; NITROGEN DOPED GRAPHENE; NITROGEN FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; NITROGEN-DOPED; POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84934908553     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02197     Document Type: Article

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