Water assisted growth of C 60 rods and tubes by liquid-liquid interfacial precipitation method

Molecules

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6840-6853

  Barzegar, Hamid Reza ^a   Nitze, Florian ^a   Malolepszy, Artur ^b   Stobinski, Leszek ^c   Tai, Cheuk Wai ^d   Wågberg, Thomas ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

C 60 rods; C 60 tubes; Fullerene; LLIP method; Water ethanol mixture

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FULLERENE C60; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; PRECIPITATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; ETHANOL; FULLERENES; NANOSTRUCTURES; WATER;

EID: 84862980730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules17066854     Document Type: Article

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