Electric field alignment of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) in polymers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5761, Issue , 2005, Pages 12-22

  Banda, Sumanth ^a   Ounaies, Zoubeida ^a   St Clair, Tyler ^b   Rud, Jared ^c   Burney, Kristin ^c   Bowlin, Gary ^c   Park, Cheol ^d   Harrison, Joycelyn ^e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric field alignment; Electrospinning; Nanocomposite; Polarized Raman; Raman spectroscopy; Single wall carbon nanotube

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD ALIGNMENT; ELECTROSPINNING; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLARIZED RAMAN; SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT);

ALIGNMENT; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; POLYIMIDES; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 25144451423     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.600353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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