Redox sorting of carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1642-1646

  Gui, Hui ^a   Streit, Jason K ^b   Fagan, Jeffrey A ^b   Hight Walker, Angela R ^b   Zhou, Chongwu ^a   Zheng, Ming ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

aqueous two phase extraction; carbon nanotube separation; Redox; surfactant coating structure

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; COATINGS; ENERGY GAP; EXTRACTION; MODULATION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; YARN;

AQUEOUS TWO PHASE SYSTEM; AQUEOUS TWO-PHASE EXTRACTION; DENSITY GRADIENT FIELD; DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE; METALLIC NANOTUBES; REDOX; SEMI-CONDUCTING NANOTUBES; SURFACTANT COATING;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84924529857     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl504189p     Document Type: Article

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