Nanotube 'crop circles'

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1221-1222

  Huang, Shaoming ^a   Dai, Liming ^a   Mau, Albert W H ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; IRON;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLE; PYROLYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033031650     PISSN: 09599428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a901839e     Document Type: Article

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