A seamless three-dimensional carbon nanotube graphene hybrid material

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhu, Yu ^a,b   Li, Lei ^a   Zhang, Chenguang ^a,c   Casillas, Gilberto ^d   Sun, Zhengzong ^a   Yan, Zheng ^a   Ruan, Gedeng ^a   Peng, Zhiwei ^a   Raji, Abdul Rahman O ^a   Kittrell, Carter ^a,b   Hauge, Robert H ^a,b   Tour, James M ^a,b,e  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^e Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

CARBON; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; HYBRID; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84870850020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2234     Document Type: Article

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