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APPLIED CATALYSIS A-GENERAL
Volume 199, Issue 2, Pages 245-255Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-860X(99)00561-X
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carbon nanotubes; catalytic synthesis; reactivity of different reactants
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Carbon nanotubes were prepared in the catalytic decomposition of different carbon containing compounds over supported transition metal catalysts. Besides acetylene, ethylene, propylene, acetone, n-pentane, methanol, toluene, and methane were tested and each resulted in carbon nanotube formation. The quality of as-made nanotubes was investigated by TEM and was found to be at least as good as obtained in acetylene decomposition. Ethylene and propylene showed somewhat lower reactivity in the buckytube formation with respect to acetylene, simultaneously suppressed formation of amorphous carbon on the outer surface was found. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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