Urea-melt solubilization of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Advanced Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1193-1197

  Ford, William E ^a   Jung, Adrian ^b   Hirsch, Andreas ^b   Graupner, Ralf ^b   Scholz, Frank ^a   Yasuda, Akio ^a   Wessels, Jurina M ^a  

^a Sony Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SODIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMAL EFFECTS; UREA; WASHING;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; SODIUM PERCHLORATE; WATER SOLUBILITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33646534424     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200502257     Document Type: Article

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