Conductance measurement of single-walled carbon nanotubes in aqueous environment

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2338-2340

  Someya, Takao ^a,c   Kim, Philip ^b   Nuckolls, Colin ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b University of Tokyo ^*  (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRODES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; WATER;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0344511652     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1566084     Document Type: Article

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