A facile synthesis of polypyrrole/carbon nanotube composites with ultrathin, uniform and thickness-tunable polypyrrole shells

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-9

  Zhang, Bin ^a   Xu, Yiting ^b   Zheng, Yifang ^b   Dai, Lizong ^b   Zhang, Mingqiu ^a   Yang, Jin ^a   Chen, Yujie ^c   Chen, Xudong ^a   Zhou, Juying ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE BEHAVIOR; CARBON-BASED; COATING FORMATION; DEVICE APPLICATION; ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVITY; FACILE PROCEDURE; FACILE SYNTHESIS; MASS RATIO; NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; POLYMER COATING; PPY FILMS; REACTION SYSTEM; ULTRA-THIN;

CARBON; CARBON FILMS; COATINGS; ETHANOL; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ULTRATHIN FILMS;

POLYPYRROLES;

EID: 84860739321     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-431     Document Type: Article

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