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Micrograph 643 and full record
- Micrograph no
- 643
- Brief description
- Aligned carbon nanotubes, coated with a conducting polymer
- Keywords
- alignment, carbon, carbon nanotube, coating, conducting polymer, nanotube
, polymer , polypyrrole - Categories
- Polymer
- System
- Carbon nanotube
- Composition
- Coating of polypyrrole
- Standard codes
- Reaction
- Processing
- The composite films were formed by electrochemically polymerising a conducting polymer, polypyrrole, onto aligned carbon nanotubes.
- Applications
- These fine conducting composites have many potential applications in microelectronic devices and sensors.
- Sample preparation
- Technique
- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
- Length bar
- 1 μm
- Further information
- Carbon nanotubes are a long, tubular form of carbon that has an extremely high surface area. Conducting polymers, as their name suggests, are a group of polymers that exhibit excellent electrical conductivity, in some cases reaching that of copper.
- Contributor
- M Hughes
- Organisation
- Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
- Date
- 03/10/02
- Licence for re-use
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