Diverse 3D microarchitectures made by capillary forming of carbon nanotubes

Advanced Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 39, 2010, Pages 4384-4389

  De Volder, Michael ^a,b,c   Tawfick, Sameh H ^a   Park, Sei Jin ^a   Copic, Davor ^a   Zhao, Zhouzhou ^a   Lu, Wei ^a   Hart, A John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carbon Nanotubes; Microelectromechanical Systems; Microstructures; Polymeric Materials; Self Assembly

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL STIFFNESS; MICRO ARCHITECTURES; MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEM; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; NANO SCALE; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; POLYMERIC MATERIAL; REPLICA MOLDING; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

BLOOD VESSELS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; MECHATRONICS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROSTRUCTURE; SELF ASSEMBLY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POLYMERS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MECHANICS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRINTING;

MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PRINTING;

EID: 78349279654     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201001893     Document Type: Article

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