Hydrophobic vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on Corning glass for self cleaning applications

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 256, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 6699-6704

  Bu, Ian Y Y ^a   Oei, Shu Pei ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Hydrophobic; Low temperature; Vertically aligned

Indexed keywords

GLASS; HYDROPHOBICITY; PLASMA CVD; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE; YARN;

AUGER SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROPHOBIC; HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; LOW TEMPERATURES; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (PE CVD); TRICHLOROSILANES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77955658195     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.04.073     Document Type: Article

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