A new and acid-exclusive method for dispersing carbon multi-walled nanotubes in aqueous suspensions

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 297, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 275-281

  Li, Chia Chen ^a   Lin, Jen Lien ^b   Huang, Shu Jiuan ^b   Lee, Jyh Tsung ^b   Chen, Ci Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ammonium polyacrylic acid; Aqueous suspension; Dispersion; Hydrogen peroxide; MWNTs

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PH EFFECTS; RHEOLOGY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMMONIUM POLYACRYLIC ACID; AQUEOUS SUSPENSION; CONCENTRATED ACIDS; STRUCTURE MORPHOLOGY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CARBON NANOTUBE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; POLYACRYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 33847025597     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2006.10.022     Document Type: Article

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