Improvement of the mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotube networks by carbon plasma coatings

Carbon

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 50-61

  Kaskela, Antti ^a   Koskinen, Jari ^a   Jiang, Hua ^a   Tian, Ying ^a   Liu, Xuwen ^a   Susi, Toma ^a   Kaukonen, Markus ^a   Nasibulin, Albert G ^a   Kauppinen, Esko I ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ATMOSPHERE; BERKOVICH TIP; CARBON COATING; CARBON PLASMAS; CONFORMAL COATINGS; ELASTIC RECOVERY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; ION FLUXES; NANO-INDENTATION MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; PLASMA PULSE; RASTER SCANS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORKS; VACUUM ARC DEPOSITION; VACUUM ARCS;

COATINGS; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); VACUUM APPLICATIONS; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY;

CARBON;

EID: 84871294966     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.10.016     Document Type: Article

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