Synthesis and nucleation-growth mechanism of almost catalyst-free carbon nanotubes grown from Fe-filled sphere-like graphene-shell surface

Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Shamsudin, Muhammad Salleh ^a,b   Mohammad, Maryam ^a   Zobir, Syazwan Afif Mohd ^a   Asli, Noor Asnida ^a   Bakar, Suriani Abu ^c   Abdullah, Saifollah ^a   Yahya, Syed Yusainee Syed ^a   Mahmood, Mohamad Rusop ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c SULTAN IDRIS EDUCATION UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Camphor; Carbon nanotube; Catalyst; Graphene shell; Nucleation growth mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85135242470     PISSN: 20089244     EISSN: 21938865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-8865-3-13     Document Type: Article

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