Mass production of high-quality multi-walled carbon nanotube bundles on a Ni/Mo/MgO catalyst

Carbon

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 295-301

  Li, Y ^a,b   Zhang, X B ^a,b   Tao, X Y ^a   Xu, J M ^a   Huang, W Z ^a   Luo, J H ^a   Luo, Z Q ^a   Li, T ^a   Liu, F ^a   Bao, Y ^c   Geise, H J ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

A. Carbon nanotubes; B. Chemical vapor deposition, Catalyst

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PURIFICATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

CATALYTIC DECOMPOSITION; FIELD EMITTERS; MASS PRODUCTION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 9644265469     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2004.09.014     Document Type: Article

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