Coalescence of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5469, 2000, Pages 1226-1229

  Terrones, M ^a   Terrones, H ^a   Banhart, F ^a   Charlier, J C ^a   Ajayan, P M ^a  

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CARBON;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHIRALITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034686050     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5469.1226     Document Type: Article

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28. We are grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt Stifftung (M.T.), CONACYT-México grants 25237 and J31192U (H.T., M.T.), DGAPA-UNAM sabbatical scheme and grant 108199 (H.T.), and the Mexican Academy of Sciences (H.T.). J.C.C acknowledges the National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) of Belgium and the Belgian Program on Interuniversity Attraction Poles on Reduced Dimensionality Systems (PAI4/10). P.M.A. acknowledges NSF for supporting his research through the CAREER program.