Formation of highly dense aligned ribbons and transparent films of single-walled carbon nanotubes directly from carpets

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1871-1878

  Pint, Cary L ^a,c   Xu, Ya Qiong ^d   Pasquali, Matteo ^a,b,c   Hauge, Robert H ^a,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Chemical vapor deposition; Transparent films

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON FILMS; CARPET MANUFACTURE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; FILM GROWTH; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL FILMS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SUBSTRATES; ULTRATHIN FILMS; VAPORS;

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; ALIGNED NANOTUBES; HIGHLY DENSEST; HIGHLY EFFICIENT; LIQUID PHASES; PATTERNED SUBSTRATES; SCALABLE ROUTES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; TRANSPARENT FILMS; ULTRALONG CARBON NANOTUBES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

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

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

EID: 54249091175     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn8003718     Document Type: Article

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