Single-walled carbon nanotube networks for ethanol vapor sensing applications

Nano Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 77-86

  Anoshkin, Ilya V ^a   Nasibulin, Albert G ^a   Mudimela, Prasantha R ^a,b   He, Maoshuai ^a   Ermolov, Vladimir ^c,d   Kauppinen, Esko I ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ar plasma; carbon nanobuds; ethanol vapor sensor; nanotubes; single walled carbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874191694     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0282-6     Document Type: Article

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