Stabilization of Individual Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous Solutions

Nano Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-28

  Bandyopadhyaya, Rajdip ^a   Nativ Roth, Einat ^a   Regev, Oren ^a   Yerushalmi Rozen, Rachel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 0141485641     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl010065f     Document Type: Article

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