Electrochemical processing of discrete single-walled carbon nanotube anions

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1769-1778

  Hodge, Stephen A ^a   Fogden, Siaîn ^a   Howard, Christopher A ^b   Skipper, Neal T ^b   Shaffer, Milo S P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; deposition; dispersion; electrochemistry; functionalization; purification

Indexed keywords

CHARGE/DISCHARGE; CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALIZATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL DISSOLUTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSING; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL STABILITIES; ELECTROPHILES; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NON-AQUEOUS; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION REACTIONS; PREFERENTIAL DISSOLUTION; REVERSIBLE CHANGE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS); SPONTANEOUS DISSOLUTION; ULTRA-SONICATION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CENTRIFUGATION; DEBRIS; DEPOSITION; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISSOLUTION; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; PURIFICATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

ELECTROCHEMISTRY;

EID: 84874402056     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305919p     Document Type: Article

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