Impact of sonication pretreatment on carbon nanotubes: A transmission electron microscopy study

Carbon

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 404-411

  Rossell, Marta D ^a,b   Kuebel, Christian ^c   Ilari, Gabriele ^a   Rechberger, Felix ^b   Heiligtag, Florian J ^b   Niederberger, Markus ^b   Koziej, Dorota ^b   Erni, Rolf ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALIZATION; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; DISPERSION PROCESS; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IRON ACETYLACETONATE; MICROWAVE ASSISTED SYNTHESIS; SONICATION TREATMENT;

DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOPARTICLES; SONICATION; SURFACE DEFECTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84879686387     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.05.024     Document Type: Article

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