Controlling exfoliation in order to minimize damage during dispersion of long SWCNTs for advanced composites

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yoon, Howon ^a   Yamashita, Motoi ^a   Ata, Seisuke ^a   Futaba, Don N ^a   Yamada, Takeo ^a   Hata, Kenji ^a  

^a Technology Research Association for Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes TASC   (Japan)

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EID: 84893278579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03907     Document Type: Article

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