Fermentation based carbon nanotube multifunctional bionic composites

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Valentini, Luca ^a   Bon, Silvia Bittolo ^a   Signetti, Stefano ^b   Tripathi, Manoj ^c   Iacob, Erica ^c   Pugno, Nicola M ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE;

BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROBIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOFILMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FERMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84974644237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep27031     Document Type: Article

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