Anisotropically functionalized carbon nanotube array based hygroscopic scaffolds

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 10608-10613

  Ozden, Sehmus ^a   Ge, Liehui ^a   Narayanan, Tharangattu N ^b   Hart, Amelia H C ^a   Yang, Hyunseung ^c   Sridhar, Srividya ^d   Vajtai, Robert ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL ELECTROCHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^d DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

asymmetric functionalization; carbon nanotubes; hydrophilic; hydrophobic; water harvesting

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; FORESTRY; HYDROPHILICITY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); RUNOFF; SCAFFOLDS; WATER CONSERVATION;

FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES; HYDROPHILIC; HYDROPHOBIC; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC; ORDERED MICROSTRUCTURES; SURFACE INTERACTIONS; WATER HARVESTING;

HYDROPHOBICITY;

CARBON FIBERS; HARVESTING; RUNOFF; SCAFFOLDS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER REPELLENCE; WETTING;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84904092361     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5022717     Document Type: Article

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