Length dependent behavior of a carbon nanotube interacting at liquid-air interface

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  De Asis Jr , Edward D ^a,b   Li, You ^a,c   Ohta, Riichiro ^a,d   Austin, Alex ^c   Leung, Joseph ^a   Nguyen, Cattien V ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and Engineering   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CAPILLARITY; CARBON NANOTUBES; FRACTURE MECHANICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIQUIDS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE WAVES; WETTING;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LIQUID-AIR INTERFACES; MULTI WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (MWCNT); NANO TUBE; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); RESTORING FORCES; STRUCTURAL FAILURES; SURFACE TENSION FORCES; WATER AIR INTERFACES; WATER SURFACES;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 47549090964     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2953688     Document Type: Article

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