Generic approach for dispersing single-walled carbon nanotubes: The strength of a weak interaction

Langmuir

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 6085-6088

  Shvartzman Cohen, Rina ^a   Levi Kalisman, Yael ^a   Nativ Roth, Einat ^a   Yerushalmi Rozen, Rachel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COPOLYMERS; DISPERSIONS; ENTROPY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SOLUTIONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SCATTERING;

ENTROPIC REPULSION; GENERIC APPROACHES; INTERTUBE POTENTIAL; SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

AGGLOMERATES; CARBON; COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTROPY; POLYMERS; SOLUTIONS; X RAY SPECTRA;

EID: 3442898185     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la049344j     Document Type: Article

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