Large-scale aligned carbon nanotubes from their purified, highly concentrated suspension

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1042-1048

  Lu, Luhua ^a,b   Chen, Wei ^a  

^a SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Gellan gum; High concentration; Liquid crystal; Purification; SWCNT alignment

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; ALIGNED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS; BIOPOLYMER MATRIX; COMPOSITE THIN FILMS; CONCENTRATED SUSPENSION; DISPERSANTS; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; GELLAN GUM; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH YIELD; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE; MECHANICAL SHEARING; NON DESTRUCTIVE; PHYSICAL METHODS;

ALIGNMENT; BIOMOLECULES; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PURIFICATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE; GELLAN; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUSPENSION;

CARBON; ELECTRICITY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SUSPENSIONS; WATER;

EID: 77649134419     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901326m     Document Type: Conference Paper

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