Mono-dispersed ultra-long single-walled carbon nanotubes as enabling components in transparent and electrically conductive thin films

Carbon

Volumn 82, Issue C, 2015, Pages 152-160

  Wang, Yanqing ^a   Fugetsu, Bunshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON FILMS; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; DISPERSIONS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORK; CONDUCTIVE MECHANISMS; DIFFERENT DENSITIES; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FILMS; LONG SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; POLYETHYLENE-TEREPHTHALATE FILMS; TRANSFER ELECTRONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84923646655     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.10.045     Document Type: Article

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