Study of dispersion of boron nitride nanotubes by triton X-100 surfactant using molecular dynamics simulations

Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Fatemi, S Mahmood ^a   Foroutan, Masumeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aggregated boron nitride nanotubes; dispersion; interfacial angle; radius of gyration; triton X 100 surfactant

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928412851     PISSN: 02196336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219633614500631     Document Type: Article

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