Understanding the stabilization of single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene in ionic surfactant aqueous solutions: Large-scale coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation-assisted DLVO theory

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1047-1060

  Shih, Chih Jen ^a,b   Lin, Shangchao ^a,c   Strano, Michael S ^a   Blankschtein, Daniel ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CARBON; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GRAPHENE; IONIC STRENGTH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; YARN;

CARBON NANO-MATERIALS; COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DERJAGUIN-LANDAU-VERWEY-OVERBEEK THEORIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS); SURFACE ELECTRIC POTENTIALS; SURFACTANT ADSORPTION; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84921298365     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5093477     Document Type: Article

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