Isolation of Pristine Electronics Grade Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes by Switching the Rigidity of the Wrapping Polymer Backbone on Demand

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 10203-10213

  Joo, Yongho ^a   Brady, Gerald J ^a   Shea, Matthew J ^a   Oviedo, M Belén ^b   Kanimozhi, Catherine ^a   Schmitt, Samantha K ^a   Wong, Bryan M ^b   Arnold, Michael S ^a   Gopalan, Padma ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

conjugated polymers; polymer backbone rigidity; s SWCNTs

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPLEXATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTUBES; RIGIDITY; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; YARN;

CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALITY; IRREVERSIBLE ADSORPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; POLYMER BACKBONES; S- SWCNTS; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; SINGLED WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84945914856     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03835     Document Type: Article

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