Diameter refinement of semiconducting arc discharge single-walled carbon nanotubes via density gradient ultracentrifugation

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 2805-2810

  Seo, Jung Woo T ^a   Yoder, Nathan L ^b   Shastry, Tejas A ^a   Humes, Jefford J ^b   Johns, James E ^a   Green, Alexander A ^a,c   Hersam, Mark C ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NanoIntegris Inc   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DGU; electronic; near infrared; optical; separation; sorting

Indexed keywords

DGU; ELECTRONIC; ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES; FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS);

CENTRIFUGATION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SEPARATION; SORTING;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84883785489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz4013596     Document Type: Article

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