Towards solutions of single-walled carbon nanotubes in common solvents

Advanced Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1876-1881

  Bergin, Shane D ^b   Nicolosi, Valeria ^b   Streich, Philip V ^a   Giordani, Silvia ^b   Sun, Zhenyu ^b   Windle, Alan H ^c   Ryan, Peter ^b   Niraj, N Peter P ^b   Wang, Zhi Tao T ^b   Carpenter, Leslie ^d   Blau, Werner J ^b   Boland, John J ^b   Hamilton, James P ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d DOW CORNING CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MIXING; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; SILICON; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLVENTS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

COLLOIDAL DISPERSIONS; COMMON SOLVENTS; DIMETHYLACETAMIDE; DISPERSIBILITY; ENTHALPY OF MIXING; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; PL INTENSITIES; PYRROLIDONE; SI(100) SURFACE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 49149087482     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200702451     Document Type: Article

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