Quantitative theory of adsorptive separation for the electronic sorting of single-walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3367-3379

  Jain, Rishabh M ^a   Tvrdy, Kevin ^a   Han, Rebecca ^a   Ulissi, Zachary ^a   Strano, Michael S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

mechanism; separation; Sephacryl gel; single chirality; single walled carbon nanotube; sodium dodecyl sulfate

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CHIRALITY; HYDROGELS; IONIC STRENGTH; MECHANISMS; RATE CONSTANTS; SEPARATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

ADSORPTIVE SEPARATION; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PREPARATIVE-SCALE SEPARATIONS; SELECTIVE ADSORPTION; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; SINGLE CHIRALITIES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS;

SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE;

EID: 84899465103     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4058402     Document Type: Article

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