Highly conductive single-walled carbon nanotube thin film preparation by direct alignment on substrates from water dispersions

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1155-1163

  Azoz, Seyla ^a   Exarhos, Annemarie L ^b   Marquez, Analisse ^a   Gilbertson, Leanne M ^a   Nejati, Siamak ^a   Cha, Judy J ^c   Zimmerman, Julie B ^a   Kikkawa, James M ^b   Pfefferle, Lisa D ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; ASPECT RATIO; CARBON; CARBON FILMS; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; DISPERSIONS; FILM PREPARATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; SCALABILITY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THIN FILMS; UREA; YARN;

CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; RESISTANCE VALUES; ROD-LIKE MORPHOLOGY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); TRANSMITTANCE RANGES; WATER SUSPENSIONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84921732484     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la503919u     Document Type: Article

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