True solutions of single-walled carbon nanotubes for assembly into macroscopic materials

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 830-834

  Davis, Virginia A ^a,b,f,g   Parra Vasquez, A Nicholas G ^a,b   Green, Micah J ^a,b,f,g   Rai, Pradeep K ^a,b   Behabtu, Natnael ^a,b   Prieto, Valentin ^a,b   Booker, Richard D ^a   Schmidt, Judith ^d   Kesselman, Ellina ^d   Zhou, Wei ^e   Fan, Hua ^a   Adams, W Wade ^a   Hauge, Robert H ^a,c   Fischer, John E ^e   Cohen, Yachin ^d   Talmon, Yeshayahu ^d   Smalley, Richard E ^a,c   Pasquali, Matteo ^a,b,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NANORODS; NANOTUBES; YARN;

BOTTOM UP; CONTROLLED MORPHOLOGY; FLUID-PHASE; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASIS; MACROSCOPIC MATERIALS; RATIONAL DESIGN; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBES; SUPER ACID;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

NANOFIBER; NANOMATERIAL; NANOROD; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CRYSTAL; DISSOLUTION; HYDROGEL; LIQUID; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 72549089556     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2009.302     Document Type: Article

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