Reversible transformation of hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity of aligned carbon nanotube arrays and buckypapers by dry processes

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 868-875

  Wang, H Z ^a   Huang, Z P ^b   Cai, Q J ^c   Kulkarni, K ^b   Chen, C L ^c   Carnahan, D ^b   Ren, Z F ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NanoLab Inc   (United States)

^c ROCKWELL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; APPARENT CONTACT ANGLE; BUCKY PAPER; DRY PROCESS; DRY TREATMENT; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; OZONE TREATMENT; REVERSIBLE TRANSFORMATION; ROUGH SURFACES; SUPER-HYDROPHILIC; SUPER-HYDROPHILICITY; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; SURFACE STATE; UV- AND; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

CONTACT ANGLE; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OZONE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 71649105105     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.10.041     Document Type: Article

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