Fabrication and electrical characterization of polyaniline-based nanofibers with diameter below 30 nm

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3800-3802

  Zhou, Yangxin ^a   Freitag, Marcus ^a,b   Hone, James ^a,c   Staii, Cristian ^a   Johnson Jr , A T ^a   Pinto, Nicholas J ^a,d   MacDiarmid, A G ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NATURAL FIBERS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYMER BLENDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTROSPINNING; NANOFIBER; POLYANILINE; SCANNING CONDUCTANCE MICROSCOPY; THERMAL DAMAGE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0345359878     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1622108     Document Type: Article

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