Electron paramagnetic resonance investigation of purified catalyst-free single-walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7708-7716

  Zaka, Mujtaba ^a   Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Wang, Huiliang ^a   Yan, Wenjing ^a   Robertson, Alex ^a   Wu, Yimin A ^a   Rümmeli, Mark H ^b,c   Staunton, David ^d   Hashimoto, Takeshi ^e   Morton, John J L ^a   Ardavan, Arzhang ^a   Briggs, G Andrew D ^a   Warner, Jamie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Meijo Nano Carbon Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

electron paramagnetic resonance; nanotubes; single walled; ultracentrifugation

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE BUNDLE; CATALYST IMPURITY; CATALYST PARTICLES; CATALYST-FREE; CENTRIFUGATION PROCESS; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; EPR SIGNALS; NONMAGNETICS; PARAMAGNETIC IMPURITY; REDUCED CATALYSTS; SINGLE-WALLED; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ABLATION; AMORPHOUS CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; IMPURITIES; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; PARAMAGNETISM; PURIFICATION; REMOVAL; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE; IRON;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TIME; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIBRATION; VOLATILIZATION;

ABSORPTION; CATALYSIS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHITE; IRON; MAGNETICS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIBRATION; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 78650750816     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102602a     Document Type: Article

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