Organizing Carbon Nanotubes with Liquid Crystals

Nano Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1197-1201

  Lynch, Michael D ^a   Patrick, David L ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0042258680     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl025694j     Document Type: Article

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