A carbon nanotube-based coulter nanoparticle counter

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 937-945

  Ito, Takashi ^a,b,c   Sun, Li ^a,d,e   Henriquez, Ronald R ^a,f   Crooks, Richard M ^a,g,h,i  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

ⁱ Dept of Chem and Chem Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CARBON NANOTUBE COULTER COUNTER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDUCTOMETRY; COULTER COUNTER; DISPERSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT; MICELLAR ELECTROKINETIC CHROMATOGRAPHY; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTUBE; PARTICLE SIZE; PKA; POLYMERIZATION; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 11244331698     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar040108+     Document Type: Article

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