Wetting of single shell carbon nanotubes

Advanced Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 1472-1475

  Dujardin, Erik ^b   Ebbesen, Thomas W ^a,c   Krishnan, Ajit ^c   Treacy, Michael M J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

^b PSL Research University   (France)

^c NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CARBON; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; LASER ABLATION; MELTING; OXIDATION; PURIFICATION; SURFACE TENSION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; WETTING;

MELTING POINT;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0032297740     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4095(199812)10:17<1472::AID-ADMA1472>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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