Measurement of carbon nanotube microstructure relative density by optical attenuation and observation of size-dependent variations

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 11511-11519

  Park, Sei Jin ^a   Schmidt, Aaron J ^a,b   Bedewy, Mostafa ^a   John Hart, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

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EID: 84881110210     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3cp51415c     Document Type: Article

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