Materials science: Strong, transparent, multifunctional, carbon nanotube sheets

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5738, 2005, Pages 1215-1219

  Zhang, Mei ^a   Fang, Shaoli ^a   Zakhidov, Anvar A ^a   Lee, Sergey B ^a   Aliev, Ali E ^a   Williams, Christopher D ^a   Atkinson, Ken R ^b   Baughman, Ray H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; RADIATION EFFECTS;

BROAD-BAND RADIATION; ELASTOMERIC ELECTRODES; MACROSCOPIC ARTICLES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; ELASTOMER; INDIUM; OXIDE; PLASTIC; TIN;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAVIMETRY; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILM; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 23844522522     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115311     Document Type: Article

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