Macroscopic, neat, single-walled carbon nanotube fibers

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5689, 2004, Pages 1447-1450

  Ericson, Lars M ^a   Fan, Hua ^a   Peng, Haiqing ^a   Davis, Virginia A ^a,b   Zhou, Wei ^c   Sulpizio, Joseph ^a   Wang, Yuhuang ^a   Booker, Richard ^a   Vavro, Juraj ^c   Guthy, Csaba ^c   Parra Vasquez, A Nicholas G ^a,b   Kim, Myung Jong ^a   Ramesh, Sivarajan ^a   Saini, Rajesh K ^a   Kittrell, Carter ^a   Lavin, Gerry ^d   Schmidt, Howard ^a   Adams, W Wade ^a   Billups, W E ^a   Pasquali, Matteo ^a,b   Hwang, Wen Fang ^a   Hauge, Robert H ^a   Fischer, John E ^c   Smalley, Richard E ^a   more..

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Carbon Consultations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID ANIONS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNT) FIBERS; WELL-ALIGNED MACROSCOPIC FIBERS;

CARBON FIBERS; COMPOSITION; NEGATIVE IONS; SPINNING (FIBERS); SULFURIC ACID;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

ANION; CARBON; NANOTUBE; POLYMER; SULFURIC ACID; SURFACTANT;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VISCOSITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 4444249427     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101398     Document Type: Article

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