Assembly of untreated single-walled carbon nanotubes at a liquid-liquid interface

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1444-1450

  Matsui, Jun ^a,b   Yamamoto, Kohei ^a   Miyashita, Tokuji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DESORPTION; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ETHANOL; HEXANE; LIQUIDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SODIUM; SODIUM SULFATE; SUBSTRATES; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

AFM IMAGES; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ASSEMBLY MECHANISMS; ELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES; HIGH TRANSPARENCIES; LIQUID-LIQUID INTERFACES; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATES; UNIFORM FILMS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 62949199903     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.01.033     Document Type: Article

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