Photoactuators and motors based on carbon nanotubes with selective chirality distributions

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Xiaobo ^a,b,c   Yu, Zhibin ^a,b,c   Wang, Chuan ^a,b,c   Zarrouk, David ^a   Seo, Jung Woo Ted ^d   Cheng, Jim C ^a,b   Buchan, Austin D ^a   Takei, Kuniharu ^a,b,c   Zhao, Yang ^e   Ager, Joel W ^c   Zhang, Junjun ^a,b,c   Hettick, Mark ^a,b,c   Hersam, Mark C ^d   Pisano, Albert P ^b,e   Fearing, Ronald S ^a   Javey, Ali ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

CARBON; DEFLECTION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CHIRALITY; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; LIGHT INTENSITY; OSCILLATOR; RESPONSE TIME; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84891866692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3983     Document Type: Article

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