Low vacuum annealing of cellulose acetate on nickel towards transparent conductive CNT-graphene hybrid films

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9071-9077

  Nguyen, Duc Dung ^a   Tiwari, Rajanish N ^a   Matsuoka, Yuki ^a   Hashimoto, Goh ^b   Rokuta, Eiji ^b   Chen, Yu Ze ^c   Chueh, Yu Lun ^c   Yoshimura, Masamichi ^a  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; CNT graphene hybrid films; graphene; low vacuum annealing; surface precipitation; transparent conducting films

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE FILMS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FIELD EMISSION; GRAPHENE; HYBRID MATERIALS; NICKEL; ORGANOMETALLICS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

CELLULOSE ACETATES; FIELD ELECTRON EMISSION PROPERTIES; HYBRID FILM; LOW VACUUM; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING FILMS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE; TUNABLE PROPERTIES;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS;

CARBON FIBERS; CELLULOSE FILM; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; FATTY ACIDS; GRAPHITE; PRECIPITATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84903528066     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5003469     Document Type: Article

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