Carbon nanotubes on a spider silk scaffold

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Steven, Eden ^a   Saleh, Wasan R ^b   Lebedev, Victor ^c   Acquah, Steve F A ^d   Laukhin, Vladimir ^e   Alamo, Rufina G ^f   Brooks, James S ^a  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD   (Iraq)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^f FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOTUBE; SILK;

ANIMAL PRODUCT; CARBON; COATING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HUMIDITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SENSOR; SPIDER; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIBER; HUMIDITY; MATERIAL COATING; SPIDER; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SILK; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SPIDERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; WATER;

EID: 84893359394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3435     Document Type: Article

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