Van der waals interactions between nanotubes and nanoparticles for controlled assembly of composite nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4920-4928

  Rance, Graham A ^a   Marsh, Dan H ^a   Bourne, Stephen J ^a   Reade, Thomas J ^a   Khlobystov, Andrei N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Carbon nanotubes; Gold nanoparticles; Polarizability; Van der waals forces

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE NANOSTRUCTURES; CONTROLLED ASSEMBLY; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBE SURFACE; POLARIZABILITIES; QUADRATIC DEPENDENCE; VAN DER WAALS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

ADSORPTION; CARBON NANOTUBES; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; POLARIZATION;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 78650163118     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101287u     Document Type: Article

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