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Dry Oxidation and Vacuum Annealing Treatments for Tuning the Wetting Properties of Carbon Nanotube Arrays
Published on: April 15, 2013
Static and dynamic wetting measurements of single carbon nanotubes
Asa H Barber1, Sidney R Cohen, H Daniel Wagner
1Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Physical Review Letters
|June 1, 2004
Abstract:
Individual carbon nanotubes were immersed and removed from various organic liquids using atomic force microscopy. The carbon nanotube-liquid interactions could be monitored in situ, and accurate measurements of the contact angle between liquids and the nanotube surface were made. These wetting data were used to produce Owens and Wendt plots giving the dispersive and polar components of the nanotube surface.
