New strategies for the chemical characterization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and their derivatives

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 179, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 41-48

  Zenkel, Christian ^a,b   Albuerne, Julio ^a,d   Emmler, Thomas ^a   Boschetti de Fierro, Adriana ^a,e   Helbig, Jens ^c   Abetz, Volker ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FutureCarbon GmbH   (Germany)

^c NUREMBERG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d BASF SE   (Germany)

^e Gambro Dialysatoren GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

FT IR spectroscopy; Multi wall carbon nanotubes; Raman spectroscopy; TGA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866302008     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-012-0848-8     Document Type: Article

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