Role of surfactants and salt in aqueous two-phase separation of carbon nanotubes toward simple chirality isolation

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1619-1628

  Subbaiyan, Navaneetha K ^a   Cambré, Sofie ^a,b   Parra Vasquez, A Nicholas G ^a   Hároz, Erik H ^a   Doorn, Stephen K ^a   Duque, Juan G ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ATPE; carbon nanotubes; chirality; one pot separation; phase separation; sorting; surfactant structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894632045     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405934y     Document Type: Article

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