Catalyst deactivation in CVD synthesis of carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 253-260

  Kuwana, Kazunori ^a   Endo, Hajime ^a   Saito, Kozo ^a   Qian, Dali ^b   Andrews, Rodney ^b   Grulke, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; B. Chemical vapor deposition; C. Modeling; D. Carbon yield, Catalytic properties

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; RATE CONSTANTS; SURFACE REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); XYLENE;

CARBON YIELD; CATALYTIC PROPERTIES; MODELING; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 9644264225     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2004.09.008     Document Type: Article

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