Sea urchin shaped carbon nanostructured materials: carbon nanotubes immobilized on hollow carbon spheres
- 2 June 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry
- Vol. 16 (29), 2984-2989
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b601684g
Abstract
Novel sea urchin shaped nanostructured carbon spheres (carbon nano-urchins) were fabricated by the growth of carbon nanotubes on the surface of hollow carbon spheres. The carbon nano-urchins were successfully used as a catalyst support for methanol electrochemical oxidation.Keywords
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