Deposition of carbon nanotubes onto glass fibers using ultrasound standing waves

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the “Centro Mexicano de Innovación en Energía del Océano” (CEMIE-O). The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of “Laboratorio Nacional de Materiales Grafénicos” located in the “Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada” for TEM characterization. In addition, the authors would like to thank Antonio Banderas for his technical assistance with SEM.

Appendix

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