Wafer-scale monodomain films of spontaneously aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 633-638

  He, Xiaowei ^a   Gao, Weilu ^a   Xie, Lijuan ^b   Li, Bo ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Lei, Sidong ^a   Robinson, John M ^a,e   Hroz, Erik H ^c   Doorn, Stephen K ^c   Wang, Weipeng ^a   Vajtai, Robert ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a   Adams, W Wade ^a   Hauge, Robert H ^a,d   Kono, Junichiro ^a,d  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CARBON FILMS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS; YARN;

ALIGNED NANOTUBES; ALIGNED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVITY; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; NEMATIC ORDER; SORTING TECHNIQUES; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY RANGE; VACUUM FILTRATION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

NANOFILM; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONDUCTANCE; CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION; ELECTRONICS; FILTRATION; LIGHT; MEMBRANE FILTER; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLARIZATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY; SUSPENSION; SYNTHESIS; THICKNESS; TRANSISTOR; ULTRASOUND; VACUUM;

EID: 84962069882     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2016.44     Document Type: Article

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