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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 564307, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/564307
Research Article

Densely Packed Linear Assembles of Carbon Nanotube Bundles in Polysiloxane-Based Nanocomposite Films

Hong-Baek Cho,1 Minh Triet Tan Huynh,1 Tadachika Nakayama,1 Son Thanh Nguyen,1 Hisayuki Suematsu,1 Tsuneo Suzuki,1 Weihua Jiang,1 Satoshi Tanaka,1 Yoshinori Tokoi,2 Soo Wohn Lee,3 Tohoru Sekino,4 and Koichi Niihara1

1Extreme Energy-Density Research Institute, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan
2Department of Electrical and Engineering System Engineering, Nagaoka National College of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-8532, Japan
3Department of Environment Engineering, Sun Moon University, Asan, Chung Nam 336-708, Republic of Korea
4Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan

Received 13 December 2012; Accepted 18 January 2013

Academic Editor: Jian Wei

Copyright © 2013 Hong-Baek Cho et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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