Microwave purification of large-area horizontally aligned arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xie, Xu ^a   Jin, Sung Hun ^b   Wahab, Muhammad A ^c   Islam, Ahmad E ^a   Zhang, Chenxi ^d   Du, Frank ^a   Seabron, Eric ^a   Lu, Tianjian ^e   Dunham, Simon N ^a   Cheong, Hou In ^e   Tu, Yen Chu ^a   Guo, Zhilin ^e   Chung, Ha Uk ^a   Li, Yuhang ^f   Liu, Yuhao ^a   Lee, Jong Ho ^g   Song, Jizhou ^h   Huang, Yonggang ^f   Alam, Muhammad A ^c   Wilson, William L ^a   Rogers, John A ^a   more..

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b SolarLight Ltd   (South Korea)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f Northwestern University   (United States)

^g Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^h ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANTENNA; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUARTZ; SENSOR; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIPOLE; DIPOLE ANTENNA; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEATING; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84919738272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6332     Document Type: Article

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