Room temperature purification of few-walled carbon nanotubes with high yield

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1634-1638

  Feng, Yiyu ^a,b   Zhang, Hongbo ^a   Hou, Ye ^a   McNicholas, Thomas Patrick ^a   Yuan, Dongning ^a   Yang, Sungwoo ^a   Ding, Lei ^a   Feng, Wei ^b   Liu, Jie ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Few walled carbon nanotubes; High yield; Hydrogen peroxide; Purification; Raman spectra

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; NONMETALS; OXIDATION; PURIFICATION;

FEW-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; HIGH YIELD; HIGH-QUALITY; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE (H; RAMAN SPECTRA; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SELECTIVE OXIDATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

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

COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 51849090167     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800388g     Document Type: Article

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