Modeling of the HiPco Process for Carbon Nanotube Production. II. Reactor-Scale Analysis

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 535-544

  Gökçen, Tahir ^a   Dateo, Christopher E ^a   Meyyappan, M ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube growth; Flowfield and chemistry; Hipco process; Reactor modeling

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBON NANOTUBE; IRON CARBONYL COMPOUNDS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; GAS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; VALIDATION STUDY; VOLATILIZATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GASES; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 85047675150     PISSN: 15334880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2002.126     Document Type: Article

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