Nanometre-scale rolling and sliding of carbon nanotubes

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6716, 1999, Pages 236-238

  Falvo, M R ^a,c   Taylor II, R M ^b,c   Helser, A ^b   Chi, V ^b   Brooks Jr , F P ^b   Washburn, S ^a,c   Superfine, R ^a,c  

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

^b Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR INTERFACES; CARBON NANOTUBES;

TRIBOLOGY;

CARBON; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ENERGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; MOTION; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; CARBON; GRAPHITE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0033590561     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16662     Document Type: Article

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