Tuning of sorted double-walled carbon nanotubes by electrochemical charging

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 459-469

  Kalbac, Martin ^a   Green, Alexander A ^b   Hersam, Mark C ^b   Kavan, Ladislav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Double walled carbon nanotubes; Electrochemical gating; Spectroelectrochemistry

Indexed keywords

DENSITY GRADIENTS; DOPING LEVELS; DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARGING; ELECTROCHEMICAL GATING; ELECTROCHEMICAL POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE POTENTIALS; ELECTROLYTE ION; HIGH DOPING LEVEL; HIGH EFFICIENCY; IN-SITU; INNER TUBES; INNER WALLS; METALLIC TUBES; NARROW DISTRIBUTION; SEMI-CONDUCTING NANOTUBES; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CENTRIFUGATION; CHARGE TRANSFER; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ION EXCHANGE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 75749112087     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900895w     Document Type: Article

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