Thermo-responsive surface wettability on a pristine carbon nanotube film

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-23

  Yang, Jin ^a,b   Zhang, Zhaozhu ^a   Men, Xuehu ^a   Xu, Xianghui ^a,b   Zhu, Xiaotao ^a,b  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; CNT FILMS; PRISTINE CARBON; SPRAY COATING; SUPER-HYDROPHILIC; SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; THERMO-RESPONSIVE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DEIONIZED WATER; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HYDROPHOBICITY;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

EID: 78049529812     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.08.033     Document Type: Article

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