Ultra-pure single wall carbon nanotube fibres continuously spun without promoter

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Paukner, Catharina ^a   Koziol, Krzysztof K K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84893822411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03903     Document Type: Article

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