Homogeneous, Coaxial Liquid Crystal Domain Growth from Carbon Nanotube Seeds

Nano Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1665-1669

  Mrozek, Randy A ^a   Kim, Byeong Su ^a   Holmberg, Vincent C ^a   Taton, T Andrew ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; LIQUID; MICROSCOPY; NANOTUBE;

EID: 0346101514     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0347738     Document Type: Article

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