A simple route to short cup-stacked carbon nanotubes by sonication

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3643-3647

  Shimamoto, Daisuke ^a   Fujisawa, Kazunori ^a   Muramatsu, Hiroyuki ^a   Hayashi, Takuya ^a   Kim, Yoong Ahm ^a   Yanagisawa, Takahashi ^b   Endo, Morinobu ^a   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^c  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GSI Creos Corporation   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; SOLUTIONS; SONICATION; YARN;

AIR OXIDATION; DISPERSIBILITIES; HIGH QUALITY; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; OUTER SURFACE; SHEAR FORCE; STRUCTURAL DEGRADATION; WATER MIXTURE;

AMORPHOUS CARBON;

EID: 77955415397     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.05.040     Document Type: Letter

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