High yield and high purity metallicity-based separation methods for single walled carbon nanotubes

• Main Author: Sara Mesgari Hagh
• Other Authors: Chan Bee Eng, Mary
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2014
• Subjects: Engineering::Bioengineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59848
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The unique electronic, mechanical and thermal properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) make them potentially suitable for many applications in electronics, optics and other areas of materials science. However, all state-of-the-art SWNT synthesis methods produce mixtures containing both m...