Large scale, selective dispersion of long single-walled carbon nanotubes with high photoluminescence quantum yield by shear force mixing

Carbon

Volumn 105, Issue , 2016, Pages 593-599

  Graf, Arko ^a   Zakharko, Yuriy ^a   Schießl, Stefan P ^a   Backes, Claudia ^a   Pfohl, Moritz ^b,c   Flavel, Benjamin S ^b   Zaumseil, Jana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DISPERSIONS; MIXING; NANOTUBES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM YIELD; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; YARN;

DISPERSION METHODS; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH SPEED SHEARS; LONG SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; SEMICONDUCTING-SWCNTS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS); SONICATION METHOD;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84965135551     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2016.05.002     Document Type: Article

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