Diameter-dependent solubility of single-walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3063-3072

  Duque, Juan G ^a,b,c,d   Parra Vasquez, A Nicholas G ^a,b,d   Behabtu, Natnael ^a,b   Green, Micah J ^a,b,f   Higginbotham, Amanda L ^c,e   Price, B Katherine ^e,g   Leonard, Ashley D ^e   Schmidt, Howard K ^e   Lounis, Brahim ^a,b,h   Tour, James M ^d   Doorn, Stephen K ^b,e   Cognet, Laurent ^d   Pasquali, Matteo ^a,b,e  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Diameter; Dispersions; Single walled carbon nanotubes; Solubility; Solutions

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); SOLUBILITY; SOLUTIONS; SPINNING (FIBERS); SULFURIC ACID; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; YARN;

DIAMETER; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; MATERIAL REINFORCEMENT; OPERATING CONDITION; SEMICONDUCTING SWNTS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); SURFACTANT SOLUTION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 77955909202     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100170f     Document Type: Article

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