Connection of macro-sized double-walled carbon nanotube strands by bandaging with double-walled carbon nanotube films

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2235-2240

  Gong, Tao ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Liu, Wenjin ^a   Wei, Jinquan ^a   Li, Chuangang ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a   Zhong, Minlin ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CONTACT RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC CABLES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;

BANDAGES; DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (DWCNT); RANDOM LENGTH; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 34548452473     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.06.029     Document Type: Article

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