Experimental study of industrial scale fullerene production by combustion synthesis

Carbon

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 311-319

  Takehara, Hiroaki ^a   Fujiwara, Masashi ^a   Arikawa, Mineyuki ^a   Diener, Michael D ^b   Alford, J Michael ^b  

^a Frontier Carbon Corporation   (Japan)

^b TDA RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Fullerene, Soot; B. Combustion; C. Chromatography; D. Carbon yield

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMBUSTION; IONIZATION; SOOT; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CARBON NANOMATERIALS; CARBON RODS; CARBON YIELD; GAS VELOCITY;

FULLERENES;

EID: 9644260696     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2004.09.017     Document Type: Article

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