Bending single-walled carbon nanotubes into nanorings using a Pickering emulsion-based process

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1769-1775

  Wang, Wenda ^a   Laird, Eric D ^a   Gogotsi, Yury ^a   Li, Christopher Y ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMATION MECHANISM; FUNCTIONALIZED; MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; MINIEMULSION PROCESS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

EMULSIFICATION; NANORINGS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84856740482     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.12.024     Document Type: Article

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