Shedding light on the crystallographic etching of multi-layer graphene at the atomic scale

F Schäffel, JH Warner, A Bachmatiuk, B Rellinghaus… - Nano Research, 2009 - Springer
The controlled etching of graphite and graphene by catalytic hydrogenation is potentially a
key engineering route for the fabrication of graphene nanoribbons with atomic precision …

Is there a correlation between catalyst particle size and CNT diameter?

P Moodley, J Loos, JW Niemantsverdriet, PC Thüne - Carbon, 2009 - Elsevier
Monodisperse iron oxide particles were deposited on a planar silica transmission electron
microscope (TEM) grid and from TEM and Energy Filtered TEM analyses it is confirmed that …

Catalyst size dependencies for carbon nanotube synthesis

MH Rümmeli, C Kramberger, F Schäffel… - … status solidi (b), 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We have systematically explored the synthesis parameters in laser evaporation and CVD for
the synthesis of carbon nanotubes. Our findings point to a dependence of the resultant tubes …

Nanoengineered catalyst particles as a key for tailor-made carbon nanotubes

F Schäffel, C Kramberger, MH Rümmeli… - Chemistry of …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Independent control of density and diameter of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is achieved by
catalytic growth from iron nanoparticles pre-defined by inert gas condensation. This two …

On the catalytic hydrogenation of graphite for graphene nanoribbon fabrication

F Schäffel, JH Warner, A Bachmatiuk… - … status solidi (b), 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research into the channelling of few layer graphene via catalytic hydrogenation
using metallic catalyst nanoparticles shows that this technique is potentially a key …

Uniform large diameter carbon nanotubes in vertical arrays from premade near-monodisperse nanoparticles

NT Alvarez, F Li, CL Pint, JT Mayo, EZ Fisher… - Chemistry of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Despite the many processes developed for carbon nanotube synthesis, few if any of these
control the carbon nanotube diameter and length simultaneously. Here, we report a process …

Tailoring the diameter, density and number of walls of carbon nanotubes through predefined catalyst particles

F Schäffel, MH Rümmeli, C Kramberger… - … status solidi (a), 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We have explored the influence of predefined gas phase prepared catalyst particles on
carbon nanotube (CNT) properties such as their diameter and number of walls. During the …

From multiply twinned to fcc nanoparticles via irradiation-induced transient amorphization

TT Järvi, D Pohl, K Albe, B Rellinghaus… - Europhysics …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present experimental evidence for structural transformation of multiply twinned CuAu
nanoparticles to single-crystalline morphology by 0.5 keV helium irradiation. This finding is …

Height and diameter dependence of carbon nanotube forests on the porosity and thickness of catalytic layers

Z Pápa, E Kecsenovity, D Fejes, J Budai, Z Tóth… - Applied Surface …, 2018 - Elsevier
Syntheses of highly ordered carbon nanotube (CNT) forests were studied from the aspect of
the quality of CNTs and the properties of Fe-Co catalyst. CNT forests were grown by catalytic …

Effect of B and Sn on Ni catalysts supported on pure-and on WO3/MoO3-modified zirconias for direct CH4 conversion to H2

RL Martins, MAS Baldanza, AL Alberton… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2011 - Elsevier
Methane cracking for hydrogen production was studied over monometallic/bimetallic Ni
catalysts supported on pure or WO3/MoO3-modified zirconias. The catalysts were reduced …