Highly conducting and flexible few-walled carbon nanotube thin film

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2324-2331

  Kumar, Nanjundan Ashok ^a   Jeon, In Yup ^a   Sohn, Gyung Joo ^a   Jain, Rahul ^b   Kumar, Satish ^b   Baek, Jong Beom ^a  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

conducting thin film; electrochemistry; few walled carbon nanotubes; functionalization; mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDUCTING THIN FILM; CYCLIC VOLTAMMOGRAMS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FEW-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; FOUR-PROBE MEASUREMENT; FREE-STANDING THIN FILMS; FRIEDEL-CRAFTS ACYLATION; FUNCTIONALIZATION; FUNCTIONALIZED; MICROSCOPIC STUDY; NON DESTRUCTIVE; RECTANGULAR SHAPES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SUCTION FILTRATION;

ACYLATION; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FILTRATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH; THIN FILMS;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79952964503     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn103630y     Document Type: Article

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