Industrially feasible approach to transparent, flexible, and conductive carbon nanotube films: Cellulose-assisted film deposition followed by solution and photonic processing

Applied Physics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Kim, Yeji ^a   Chikamatsu, Masayuki ^a   Azumi, Reiko ^a   Saito, Takeshi ^a   Minami, Nobutsugu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRICAL DEVICES; MATRIX POLYMERS; PHOTONIC PROCESSING; PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; POLY(ETHYLENE NAPHTHALATE); ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE-WALLED NANOTUBE;

CURING; ETHYLENE;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 84875182884     PISSN: 18820778     EISSN: 18820786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7567/APEX.6.025101     Document Type: Article

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