Fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotube aerogels in surfactant-free environments

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 6686-6694

  Duque, Juan G ^a,b   Hamilton, Christopher E ^c   Gupta, Gautam ^b   Crooker, Scott A ^d   Crochet, Jared J ^b   Mohite, Aditya ^a,b   Htoon, Han ^a,b   Obrey, Kimberly A Defriend ^c   Dattelbaum, Andrew M ^b   Doorn, Stephen K ^b  

^a Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Group   (United States)

^b Materials Physics and Applications Division   (United States)

^c Polymers and Coatings Group   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

fluorescence; low temperature; nanocomposite; silica aerogel; single walled carbon nanotube; surfactant free

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION PHENOMENA; BLUE-SHIFTED; COMPOSITE MATRICES; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS; GASPHASE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; LOW TEMPERATURES; NANO SCALE; NANOMATERIAL; NEW SOLUTIONS; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE INTENSITIES; PHOTOPHYSICAL BEHAVIOR; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICA AEROGEL; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SURFACTANT ENVIRONMENT; SURFACTANT-FREE;

ADSORPTION; AEROGELS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; SILICA; SILICA GEL; SOLVENTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 80052046778     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202225k     Document Type: Article

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