Fluorescent single walled carbon nanotube/silica composite materials

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2283-2290

  Satishkumar, B C ^a   Doom, Stephen K ^a   Baker, Gary A ^b   Dattelbaum, Andrew M ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; DGS; Fluorescence; NIR; Sensing; Silica; Sol gel

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COLLOIDS; COMPOSITE FILMS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FILMS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GELATION; GELS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; OXIDES; SILICA; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGARS;

ACIDIC CONDITIONS; ALCOHOL SOLVENTS; AQUEOUS CONDITIONS; BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS; CHALLENGING TASKS; COMPOSITE SYSTEMS; DGS; DIGLYCERYLSILANE; FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES; INFRARED EMISSION PROPERTIES; INTRINSIC FLUORESCENCES; MODIFIED SILICAS; NEW APPROACHES; NIR; OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT; REDOX DOPING; SENSING; SENSING AND IMAGING; SUGAR ALCOHOLS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOTUBE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALCOHOLS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 58049206935     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn8003839     Document Type: Article

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