Surfactant-free dielectrophoretic deposition of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with tunable deposition density

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3559-3569

  Moscatello, Jason ^a   Kayastha, Vijaya ^a   Ulmen, Benjamin ^a   Pandey, Archana ^a   Wu, Shun ^a   Singh, Abhay ^a   Yap, Yoke Khin ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC FIELD; CLAUSIUS-MOSSOTTI FACTOR; DIELECTROPHORESIS; DIELECTROPHORETIC; SURFACTANT-FREE; SURFACTANT-FREE DISPERSIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROPHORESIS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 77955414950     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.05.054     Document Type: Article

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