Experimental observation of an extremely dark material made by a low-density nanotube array

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 446-451

  Yang, Zu Po ^a   Ci, Lijie ^b   Bur, James A ^a   Lin, Shawn Yu ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^b  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED TOTAL REFLECTANCE; ULTRALOW DIFFUSED REFLECTANCE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLOR; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 40349116864     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl072369t     Document Type: Article

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