Nanomechanics of individual carbon nanotubes from pyrolytically grown arrays

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 622-625

  Gao, Ruiping ^a,d   Wang, Zhong L ^a   Bai, Zhigang ^a   De Heer, Walter A ^b   Dai, Liming ^c   Gao, Mei ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CARBON; POINT DEFECTS; PYROLYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BENDING MODULUS; CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOMECHANICS;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0034227648     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.622     Document Type: Article

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