TY - JOUR
T1 - Strings of spherical carbon clusters grown in a catalytic arc discharge
AU - Seraphin, Sugapan
AU - Wang, Su
AU - Zhou, Dan
AU - Jiao, Jun
PY - 1994/10/14
Y1 - 1994/10/14
N2 - Strings of near-spherical, multiwalled carbon clusters grow in a carbon arc discharge when nickel or iron is present. They consist of ten to twenty 'beads' of 10-20 nm diameter, nearly equal in the same string. They touch and deform each other in the contact areas, carrying a nickel or iron particle of approximately the bead diameter at one end. Termination by a catalyst particle is common to catalytically grown carbon nanofibers. However, the phenomenon reported here lacks continuity of fiber growth at the metal-graphitic interface, and requires a different explanation for the interrupted, repetitive sequence of near-spherical cluster growth.
AB - Strings of near-spherical, multiwalled carbon clusters grow in a carbon arc discharge when nickel or iron is present. They consist of ten to twenty 'beads' of 10-20 nm diameter, nearly equal in the same string. They touch and deform each other in the contact areas, carrying a nickel or iron particle of approximately the bead diameter at one end. Termination by a catalyst particle is common to catalytically grown carbon nanofibers. However, the phenomenon reported here lacks continuity of fiber growth at the metal-graphitic interface, and requires a different explanation for the interrupted, repetitive sequence of near-spherical cluster growth.
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U2 - 10.1016/0009-2614(94)00973-2
DO - 10.1016/0009-2614(94)00973-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000911008
VL - 228
SP - 506
EP - 512
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
SN - 0009-2614
IS - 6
ER -