Water-assisted highly efficient synthesis of impurity-free single-walled carbon nanotubes

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5700, 2004, Pages 1362-1364

  Hata, Kenji ^a   Futaba, Don N ^a   Mizuno, Kohei ^a   Namai, Tatsunori ^a   Yumura, Motoo ^a   Iijima, Sumio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

PLAGUE; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; WATER;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DENSITY; GROWTH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; TUBE; VAPOR;

EID: 8844263043     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1104962     Document Type: Article

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10. We thank Y. Kakudate for x-ray analyses, T. Yokoi for assistance with spectrofluorimetric measurements, K. Suenaga, K. Urita for some TEM observations, and T. Okazaki and M. Yudasaka for helpful discussions. Partial support by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) Nano Carbon Technology project and the use of the AIST Nano-Processing Facility are acknowledged.