Chemical alignment of oxidatively shortened single-walled carbon nanotubes on silver surface

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 105, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 5075-5078

  Wu, Bin ^a   Zhang, Jin ^a   Wei, Zhong ^a   Cai, Shengmin ^a   Liu, Zhongfan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; OXIDATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILVER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHEMICAL ALIGNMENT; SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; TAPPING MODE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0035822222     PISSN: 10895647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp0101256     Document Type: Letter

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