Quantitative nanoscale visualization of heterogeneous electron transfer rates in 2D carbon nanotube networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 11487-11492

  Güell, Aleix G ^a   Ebejer, Neil ^a   Snowden, Michael E ^a   McKelvey, Kim ^a,b   Macpherson, Julie V ^a   Unwin, Patrick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; RUTHENIUM; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TRIMETHYLAMMONIUM SALT DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEOUS ELECTRON TRANSFER; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR PROBE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84863922723     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203671109     Document Type: Article

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