Carbon nanotube actuators

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5418, 1999, Pages 1340-1344

  Baughman, Ray H ^a   Cui, Changxing ^a   Zakhidov, Anvar A ^a   Iqbal, Zafar ^a   Barisci, Joseph N ^f   Spinks, Geoff M ^f   Wallace, Gordon G ^f   Mazzoldi, Alberto ^b   De Rossi, Danilo ^b   Rinzler, Andrew G ^c   Jaschinski, Oliver ^d   Roth, Siegmar ^d   Kertesz, Miklos ^e  

^a AlliedSignal   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATORS; FERROELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

CARBON; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NANOTUBES;

ACTUATORS;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBE;

EID: 0033591304     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5418.1340     Document Type: Article

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