Finding a needle in a chemical haystack: Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for studying carbon nanotubes mixtures

Nanotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 44, 2010, Pages

  Andrew Chan, K L ^a   Kazarian, Sergei G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; CHEMICAL IMAGES; DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION; ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING; NANOMETRES; RADIAL BREATHING MODE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 77958556965     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/44/445704     Document Type: Article

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