Exohedral physisorption of ambient moisture scales non-monotonically with fiber proximity in aligned carbon nanotube arrays

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4591-4599

  Stein, Itai Y ^a   Lachman, Noa ^a   Devoe, MacKenzie E ^a   Wardle, Brian L ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

aligned carbon nanotubes; ambient physisorption; array morphology; proximity effects; theoretical framework

Indexed keywords

PHYSISORPTION;

AB INITIO STUDY; ADSORBED WATER; ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; AMBIENT MOISTURE; NON-MONOTONIC DEPENDENCE; PROXIMITY EFFECTS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84901649799     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5002408     Document Type: Article

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