Reversibility, dopant desorption, and tunneling in the temperature-dependent conductivity of type-separated, conductive carbon nanotube networks

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1968-1976

  Barnes, Teresa M ^a   Blackburn, Jeffrey L ^a   van de Lagemaat, Jao ^a   Coutts, Timothy J ^a   Heben, Michael J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Doping; Electrical properties; Hysteresis; Optical properties; Resistivity; Temperature dependence

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; CARBON; DESORPTION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HYSTERESIS; METALLIC SOAPS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NITRIC ACID; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SENSOR NETWORKS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TEMPERATURE PROGRAMMED DESORPTION; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

AFTER TREATMENTS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CONDUCTIVE CARBON NANOTUBES; DEDOPING; DESORPTION THRESHOLDS; DOPING; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; IRREVERSIBLE; METALLIC TUBES; RESISTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTING TUBES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL STABILITIES; THIONYL CHLORIDES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

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

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

EID: 54349088253     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800194u     Document Type: Article

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