One-Step Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of 3D N-doped Carbon Nanotube/N-doped Graphene Hybrid Material on Nickel Foam
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Synthetic Procedures of N-CNTs/N-Graphene
2.2. Characterization
3. Result and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Li, H.-F.; Wu, F.; Wang, C.; Zhang, P.-X.; Hu, H.-Y.; Xie, N.; Pan, M.; Zeng, Z.; Deng, S.; Wu, M.H.; et al. One-Step Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of 3D N-doped Carbon Nanotube/N-doped Graphene Hybrid Material on Nickel Foam. Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 700. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8090700
Li H-F, Wu F, Wang C, Zhang P-X, Hu H-Y, Xie N, Pan M, Zeng Z, Deng S, Wu MH, et al. One-Step Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of 3D N-doped Carbon Nanotube/N-doped Graphene Hybrid Material on Nickel Foam. Nanomaterials. 2018; 8(9):700. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8090700
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Hua-Fei, Fan Wu, Chen Wang, Pei-Xin Zhang, Hai-Yan Hu, Ning Xie, Ming Pan, Zheling Zeng, Shuguang Deng, Marvin H. Wu, and et al. 2018. "One-Step Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of 3D N-doped Carbon Nanotube/N-doped Graphene Hybrid Material on Nickel Foam" Nanomaterials 8, no. 9: 700. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8090700