Macroscopic Nanotube Fibers Spun from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Polyelectrolytes

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 9107-9112

  Jiang, Chengmin ^a,b   Saha, Avishek ^a,b   Young, Colin C ^a,b,c   Hashim, Daniel Paul ^c   Ramirez, Carolyn E ^c   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a,b,c   Pasquali, Matteo ^a,b,c   Martí, Angel A ^a,b,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

crown ethers; fibers; liquid crystals; polyelectrolytes; SWCNTs

Indexed keywords

CROWN ETHERS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DISPERSIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; ETHERS; FIBERS; LIGANDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NANOTUBES; POLYELECTROLYTES; SPINNING (FIBERS); TENSILE STRENGTH;

LIQUID CRYSTALLINE; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNT); STRONG ACIDS; SWCNTS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84925373070     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502552q     Document Type: Article

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