Materials science of carbon nanotubes: Fabrication, integration, and properties of macroscopic structures of carbon nanotubes

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1045-1053

  Zhou, Otto ^a   Shimoda, Hideo ^a   Gao, Bo ^a   Oh, Soojin ^a   Fleming, Les ^a   Yue, Guozhen ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRONICS; MATERIAL STATE; MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTUBE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0036915183     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar010162f     Document Type: Article

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