Surfactant assisted selective confinement of carbon nanotubes functionalized with octadecylamine in a poly(styrene-b-isoprene-b-styrene) block copolymer matrix

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2474-2480

  Peponi, Laura ^a   Valentini, Luca ^a   Torre, Luigi ^a   Mondragon, Iñaki ^b   Kenny, Josè M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER MATRIX; DISPERSANT; DODECANETHIOL; FUNCTIONALIZED; NANO STRUCTURATION; OCTADECYLAMINE; SELF ASSEMBLED NANOSTRUCTURES; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SURFACTANT ASSISTED;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYSTYRENES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); STYRENE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 67349271068     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.04.039     Document Type: Article

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