Characterization of silver nanoparticle-decorated single-walled carbon nanotube films

Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 587-599

  Namura, Masaru ^a   Sato, Yoshinori ^a   Sashida, Naoki ^a   Ogino, Shin Ichi ^a   Motomiya, Kenichi ^a   Jeyadevan, Balachandran ^a   Tohji, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decoration; Electrical conductivity; Films; Silver nanoparticles; Single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

AG PARTICLES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; IN-PLANE; NANOTUBE BUNDLES; NITROGEN GAS; SEM; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON;

CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SINTERING;

SILVER;

EID: 71949118658     PISSN: 1536383X     EISSN: 15364046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15363830903044021     Document Type: Article

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