Multicolored carbon nanotubes: Decorating patterned carbon nanotube microstructures with quantum dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1389-1395

  Lim, Xiaodai ^a   Zhu, Yanwu ^a   Cheong, Fook Chiong ^a   Hanafiah, Nurmawati Muhammad ^a   Valiyaveettil, Suresh ^a   Sow, Chorng Haur ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Micropattern; Nanosieve; Quantum dots; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DECORATION; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HYBRID MATERIALS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASERS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

DIFFERENT SIZES; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; MICROPATTERN; MULTI-WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOSIEVE; PREFERENTIAL DECORATION; QUANTUM DOTS; SELF-ASSEMBLY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; QUANTUM DOT;

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

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

EID: 49249136861     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800101f     Document Type: Article

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