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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 257892, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/257892
Research Article

Chromatographic Length Separation and Photoluminescence Study on DNA-Wrapped Single-Wall and Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Yuki Asada, Toshiki Sugai, Ryo Kitaura, and Hisanori Shinohara

Department of Chemistry and Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan

Received 11 May 2009; Accepted 29 July 2009

Academic Editor: Donglu Shi

Copyright © 2009 Yuki Asada 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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