Highly selective dispersion of single-walled carbon nanotubes using aromatic polymers

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 640-646

  Nish, Adrian ^a   Hwang, Jeong Yuan ^a,b   Doig, James ^a   Nicholas, Robin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIC POLYMERS; NANOTUBES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); YARN;

BACKBONE POLYMER; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; N-FOLD SYMMETRIES; OPTICAL ABSORBANCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EXCITATION SPECTRUM; RELATIVE CONCENTRATION; SINGLE SPECIES; TUBE DIAMETERS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

POLYMER; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; FLUORESCENCE; MODEL; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34948884640     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.290     Document Type: Article

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