Phase behavior and shear alignment in SWNT-surfactant dispersions

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Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1459-1467

  Nativ Roth, Einat ^a   Yerushalmi Rozen, Rachel ^a   Regev, Oren ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Cryo TEM; CTAB; SAXS; Shear alignment

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CANNING; CARBON; CARBON BLACK; CATIONIC SURFACTANTS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DISPERSION (WAVES); DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; FOOD ADDITIVES; FULLERENES; LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYETHYLENES; SEPARATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLUTIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS; X RAY SCATTERING;

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CARBONACEOUS SPECIES; CATIONIC SURFACTANT CETYLTRIMETHYLAMMONIUM BROMIDE; COEXISTING LIQUID PHASES; CRYO-TEM; CRYOGENIC TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL REGION; CTAB; D SPACINGS; DE-MIXING; EXTERNAL-; HOMOGENEOUS SOLUTIONS; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASE; LYOTROPIC; MACROSCOPIC PHASE SEPARATION; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SAXS; SHEAR ALIGNMENT; SHEAR-INDUCED STRUCTURE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; SURFACTANT; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICELLE; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICELLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER;

EID: 52649164200     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.200800082     Document Type: Article

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