Isolation of single-walled carbon nanotube enantiomers by density differentiation

Nano Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-77

  Green, Alexander A ^a   Duch, Matthew C ^a   Hersam, Mark C ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Chirality; Enantiomer; Handedness; Optical activity; Separation

Indexed keywords

EID: 64349121286     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-009-9006-y     Document Type: Article

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