Atomic scale sliding and rolling of carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 5050-5053

  Buldum, A ^a   Lu, Jian Ping ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 0000027234     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5050     Document Type: Article

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