Controlling electrical percolation in multicomponent carbon nanotube dispersions

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 364-369

  Kyrylyuk, Andriy V ^a,e,g   Hermant, Marie Claire ^b,e   Schilling, Tanja ^c,d   Klumperman, Bert ^b   Koning, Cor E ^b   Van Der Schoot, Paul ^a,f  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^e DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; SOLVENTS; YARN;

AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS; CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITES; NANOTUBE DISPERSIONS; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLYMERIC COMPOSITES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; LATEX;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; DISPERSION; ELECTRICITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79960109956     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.40     Document Type: Article

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