Wavefront velocity oscillations of carbon-nanotube-guided thermopower waves: Nanoscale alternating current sources

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 367-375

  Abrahamson, Joel T ^a   Choi, Wonjoon ^a   Schonenbach, Nicole S ^a   Park, Jungsik ^a   Han, Jae Hee ^a   Walsh, Michael P ^a   Kalantar Zadeh, Kourosh ^a,b   Strano, Michael S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Cyclotrimethylene trinitramine; Energy storage; Oscillation; Power source; Reaction diffusion; Thermopower

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRIMETHYLENE-TRINITRAMINE; OSCILLATION; POWER SOURCES; REACTION DIFFUSION; THERMOPOWERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; REACTION KINETICS; SCAFFOLDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFRONTS;

THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

EID: 79954619019     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101618y     Document Type: Article

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