Strain measurements on individual single-walled carbon nanotubes in a polymer host: Structure-dependent spectral shifts and load transfer

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 826-831

  Leeuw, Tonya K ^a   Tsyboulski, Dmitri A ^a   Nikolaev, Pavel N ^b   Bachilo, Sergei M ^a   Arepalli, Sivaram ^b   Bruce Weisman, R ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; COMPRESSIVE STRAINS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRUM; LOAD TRANSFERS; SPECTRAL SHIFTS; STRUCTURAL TYPES; THEORETICAL MODELS;

CARBON FILMS; POLYMER FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); STRAIN;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

NANOTUBES, CARBON; POLYMERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 43149095147     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl072861c     Document Type: Article

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