Reversible tuning of the wettability of carbon nanotube arrays: The effect of ultraviolet/ozone and vacuum pyrolysis treatments

Langmuir

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 9005-9011

  Aria, Adrianus I ^a   Gharib, Morteza ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC; SURFACE CONCENTRATION; SURFACE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; VACUUM PYROLYSIS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE; WETTING PROPERTY;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PYROLYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VACUUM; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; WETTING;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; OZONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; TEMPERATURE; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WETTABILITY;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OZONE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WETTABILITY;

EID: 79960214736     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la201841m     Document Type: Article

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