Ultrathin carbon nanotube fibrils of high electrochemical capacitance

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3679-3683

  Ma, Jun ^a   Tang, Jie ^a   Zhang, Han ^a   Shinya, Norio ^a   Qin, Lu Chang ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Conductivity; Fibril; Specific capacitance

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE WIRES; CONDUCTIVITY; DIELECTROPHORETIC; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITANCE; PROBE ELECTRODE; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; SPECIFIC CAPACITANCE; ULTRA-THIN;

CAPACITANCE; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROPHORESIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROPHORESIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 73349109174     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900787h     Document Type: Article

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