Simple purification and selective enrichment of metallic SWCNTs produced using the arc-discharge method

Carbon

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1563-1569

  Maeda, Yutaka ^a,b   Takano, Yuta ^c   Sagara, Akiko ^a   Hashimoto, Masahiro ^a   Kanda, Makoto ^c   Kimura, Shin ichi ^c   Lian, Yongfu ^c   Nakahodo, Tsukasa ^c   Tsuchiya, Takahiro ^c   Wakahara, Takatsugu ^c   Akasaka, Takeshi ^c   Hasegawa, Tadashi ^a   Kazaoui, Said ^d   Minami, Nobutsugu ^d   Lu, Jing ^e   Nagase, Shigeru ^f  

^a TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AIR PURIFICATION; AMINES; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CAVITY RESONATORS; CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DISPERSION (WAVES); GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PURIFICATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

AIR-OXIDATION; ARC-DISCHARGE METHOD; CENTRIFUGATION PROCESS; DISPERSANT; NEAR-INFRARED ABSORPTION; SELECTIVE ENRICHMENT; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; TETRAHYDROFURAN SOLUTIONS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 50249139583     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2008.06.057     Document Type: Article

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