A light-driven reversible conductance switch based on a few-walled carbon nanotube/azobenzene hybrid linked by a flexible spacer

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3091-3096

  Feng, Yiyu ^a   Zhang, Xuequan ^a   Ding, Xuesong ^a   Feng, Wei ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SWITCHES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULES; NANOTUBES; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YARN;

AZOBENZENE MOLECULES; CONFORMATION CHANGE; CURRENT-VOLTAGE PLOTS; ELECTRONIC SWITCHES; FEW-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; FLEXIBLE ALKYL CHAINS; THERMAL REVERSIBILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 79954989977     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.04.045     Document Type: Article

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