Optically active single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 361-365

  Peng, Xiaobin ^a,b   Komatsu, Naoki ^a   Bhattacharya, Sumanta ^a,d   Shimawaki, Takanori ^a,c   Aonuma, Shuji ^c   Kimura, Takahide ^a   Osuka, Atsuhiro ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOMERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOTUBES; SEPARATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; YARN;

ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; HELICAL STRUCTURES; MIRROR IMAGES; OPTICAL ISOMERS; OPTICALLY ACTIVE; SELECTIVE SYNTHESIS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE;

EID: 34249952079     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.142     Document Type: Article

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