Functionalized carbon nanotubes: Properties and applications

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1096-1104

  Sun, Ya Ping ^a   Fu, Kefu ^a   Lin, Yi ^a   Huang, Weijie ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MATERIAL STATE; MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTUBE; OPTICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SOLUBILITY;

ANIMALS; BIOPOLYMERS; CARBON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEINS; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0036924412     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar010160v     Document Type: Article

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