Nanoscopically flat open-ended single-walled carbon nanotube substrates for continued growth

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-21

  Kim, Myung Jong ^a   Haroz, Erik ^a   Wang, Yuhuang ^a   Shan, Hongwei ^a   Nicholas, Nolan ^a   Kittrell, Carter ^a   Moore, Valerie C ^a   Jung, Yeonwoong ^b   Luzzi, David ^b   Wheeler, Robert ^c   Tolle, Tia Benson ^c   Fan, Hua ^a   Da, Sean ^d   Hwang, Wen Fang ^a   Wainerdi, T J ^a   Schmidt, Howard ^a   Hauge, Robert H ^a   Smalley, Richard E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

^d Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; ION BEAM CUTTING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNT);

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CARBON; CRYSTAL GROWTH; FIBERS; ION BEAMS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 33846880682     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl061531+     Document Type: Article

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