Capillarity-assisted assembly of carbon nanotube microstructures with organized initiations

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1067-1075

  Lim, Xiaodai ^a   Gary Foo, Hee Wei ^b   Chia, Guo Hao ^b   Sow, Chorng Haur ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Dunman High School   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Assembly; Carbon nanotubes; Densification; Micropatterning; Water

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DEVICE; LASER INDUCED; LASER POWER; MICRO PATTERNING; MICROBELTS; MULTI-WALLED; OXIDATION PROCESS; PRE-PATTERNING; SELF-ORGANIZED; TWISTING EFFECT;

MICROSTRUCTURE; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PLANTS (BOTANY);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77649124289     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9012109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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