Visualization of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes under an optical microscope as a result of decoration with gold nanoparticles

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1182-1188

  Chu, Haibin ^a   Cui, Rongli ^a   Wang, Jinyong ^a   Yang, Juan ^a   Li, Yan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED SIZE; ELECTROLESS DEPOSITION PROCESS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; RAMAN CHARACTERIZATION;

ADSORPTION; DECORATION; GOLD; GOLD COATINGS; GOLD DEPOSITS; NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VISUALIZATION;

MICROSCOPES;

EID: 78751568030     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.11.034     Document Type: Article

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