High-shear treatment of single-walled carbon nanotube-superacid solutions as a pre-processing technique for the assembly of fibres and films

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part N: Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems

Volumn 222, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 101-109

  Booker, R D ^a   Green, M J ^a   Fan, H ^a   Parra Vasquez, A N G ^a   Behabtu, N ^a   Young, C C ^a   Hauge, R H ^a,b   Schmidt, H K ^a   Smalley, R E ^a,b   Hwang, W F ^a   Pasquali, M ^a,b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Fibres; Single walled carbon nanotube; Single walled carbon nanotubes; Superacid

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; DEGREE OF ALIGNMENTS; DISPERSIBILITIES; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FIBRE SPINNING; FIBRES; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HOMOGENIZERS; MACROSCOPIC ARTICLES; PRE-PROCESSING; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; PROCESSABILITY; RAMAN MICROSCOPY; SEM; SUPERACID; SWNT DISPERSIONS;

ACIDS; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COAGULATION; DISPERSIONS; FIBERS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLYMER FILMS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPINNING (FIBERS); SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 77956995183     PISSN: 17403499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/17403499JNN123     Document Type: Article

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