Soft-bake purification of single-walled carbon nanotubes produced by pulsed laser vaporization

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 111, Issue 48, 2007, Pages 17678-17683

  Nikolaev, Pavel ^a   Gorelik, Olga ^a   Allada, Rama Kumar ^a   Sosa, Edward ^a   Arepalli, Sivaram ^a   Yowell, Leonard ^b  

^a ERC Inc   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL IMPURITIES; PULSED LASER VAPORIZATION;

DATA ACQUISITION; PURIFICATION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 37249063619     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp070149y     Document Type: Article

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