Controlled filling and external cleaning of multi-wall carbon nanotubes using a wet chemical method

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2205-2208

  Capobianchi, Aldo ^a   Foglia, Sabrina ^a   Imperatori, Patrizia ^a   Notargiacomo, Andrea ^b   Giammatteo, Maria ^c   Buono, Tiziana Del ^c   Palange, Elia ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CDS CRYSTALS; CONTROLLED FILLING; ENCAPSULATED MATERIALS; LYOPHILIZATION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 34548391789     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.06.050     Document Type: Article

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