CVD growth of 1D and 2D sp2 carbon nanomaterials

Journal of Materials Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 640-667

  Pang, Jinbo ^a   Bachmatiuk, Alicja ^a,b   Ibrahim, Imad ^a,c   Fu, Lei ^d   Placha, Daniela ^e   Martynkova, Grazyna Simha ^e   Trzebicka, Barbara ^b   Gemming, Thomas ^a   Eckert, Juergen ^a,c,f   Rümmeli, Mark H ^a,b,e  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS   (Poland)

^c CENTER FOR ADVANCING ELECTRONICS DRESDEN CFAED   (Germany)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; GRAPHENE; GROWTH KINETICS; NANOTUBES; PLASMA CVD; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; THERMODYNAMICS; YARN;

CARBON NANO-MATERIALS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); COMPARATIVE DATA; CVD GROWTHS; ECONOMICALLY VIABLE; PRE-TREATMENT; SYNTHESIS ROUTE; THERMAL CVD;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 84947489915     PISSN: 00222461     EISSN: 15734803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-015-9440-z     Document Type: Review

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