Tunable single-walled carbon nanotube microstructure in the liquid and solid states using poly(acrylic acid)

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 911-915

  Grunlan, Jaime C ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Kim, Yeon Seok ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS MIXTURES; POLY(ACRYLIC ACID); WATERLIKE VISCOSITY; WELL-EXFOLIATED STATES;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROSTRUCTURE; ORGANIC ACIDS; PH EFFECTS; VISCOSITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

ACRYLIC ACID RESIN; CARBON NANOTUBE; CARBOPOL 940;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY;

ACRYLIC RESINS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 33744809034     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl052486t     Document Type: Article

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