Translational and rotational dynamics of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes in aqueous suspension

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1770-1776

  Tsyboulski, Dmitri A ^a   Bachilo, Sergei M ^a   Kolomeisky, Anatoly B ^a   Weisman, R Bruce ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Diffusion; Fluorescence microscopy; Rotation; Single nanotube imaging; Single walled carbon nanotubes; SWCNT

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CARBON; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ANISOTROPIC; AQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS; BENDING MOTIONS; BROWNIAN MOTION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; EMISSION INTENSITIES; INFRARED FLUORESCENCES; LENGTH DEPENDENCES; LINEARLY POLARIZED; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; NANOTUBE LENGTHS; NORMAL CONDITIONS; ORIENTATIONAL FLUCTUATIONS; PHOTOSTABLE; RIGID RODS; ROTATIONAL DIFFUSIONS; ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS; ROTATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE-NANOTUBE IMAGING; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; SWCNT; TRANSLATIONAL DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; TRANSLATIONAL TRAJECTORIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; DIFFUSION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ROTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; ROTATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER;

EID: 54249160066     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800364r     Document Type: Article

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