Hierarchical Polymer-Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Mesostructures by Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 10673-10685

  Jia, Lin ^a,c   Petretic, Amy ^a   Molev, Gregory ^a   Guerin, Gerald ^a   Manners, Ian ^b   Winnik, Mitchell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; crystallization driven self assembly; hierarchy; hybrid mesostructures; surface modification

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CONTACT ANGLE; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICELLES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; PARAFFINS; PLASTIC COATINGS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE TREATMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YARN;

ELONGATED MICELLES; HIERARCHY; HYBRID CONSTRUCTION; KINKED STRUCTURES; MESOSTRUCTURES; MULTI-WALLED CNTS; PARTIAL OXIDATIONS; POLYMER CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84948450463     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01176     Document Type: Article

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