Inherent carbonaceous impurities on arc-discharge multiwalled carbon nanotubes and their implications for nanoscale interfaces
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2014.07.069 0008-6223/ 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. * Corresponding authors. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H.D. Espinosa), [email protected] (G.C. Schatz), stn@northw (S.T. Nguyen). 1 These authors contributed equally to this work. 2 Current address: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King’s College Rd., Toront 3G8, Canada. Zhi An , Al’ona Furmanchuk , Rajaprakash Ramachandramoorthy , Tobin Filleter , Michael R. Roenbeck , Horacio D. Espinosa *, George C. Schatz *, SonBinh T. Nguyen a,* a Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208, USA b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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