Improved hydrophobicity of carbon nanotube arrays with micropatterning

Langmuir

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 12806-12811

  Lu, Si Hong ^a   Tun, Ma Han Ni ^a   Mei, Zhiwei Joshua ^a   Chia, Guo Hao ^a   Lim, Xiaodai ^b   Sow, Chorng Haur ^b  

^a Dunman High School   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; CHANNEL WIDTHS; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; HYDROPHOBIC NATURE; MICRO PATTERNING; PARALLEL ARRAYS; PRUNING TECHNIQUES; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; WATER DROPLETS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DROP FORMATION; HYDROPHOBICITY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY;

NANOTUBES, CARBON; WATER;

EID: 70449395438     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la9018025     Document Type: Article

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