Computational nanotechnology with carbon nanotubes and fullerenes

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 42-55

  Srivastava, Deepak ^a   Menon, Madhu ^b   Cho, Kyeongjae ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0035397745     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5992.931903     Document Type: Article

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