Molecular design of strong single-wall carbon nanotube/polyelectrolyte multilayer composites

Nature Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 190-194

  Mamedov, Arif A ^a   Kotov, Nicholas A ^a   Prato, Maurizio ^b   Guldi, Dirk M ^c   Wicksted, James P ^a   Hirsch, Andreas ^d  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CROSSLINKING; MULTILAYERS; POLYELECTROLYTES;

MOLECULAR DESIGN;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

ACRYLIC ACID RESIN; BIOMATERIAL; CARBON NANOTUBE; CARBOPOL 940; ELECTROLYTE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SYNTHESIS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ACRYLIC RESINS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTROLYTES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0036877926     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat747     Document Type: Article

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