Single crystals of single-walled carbon nanotubes formed by self-assembly

Science

Volumn 292, Issue 5519, 2001, Pages 1136-1139

  Schlittler, R R ^a   Seo, J W ^a,b   Gimzewski, J K ^a,d   Durkan, C ^c   Saifullah, M S M ^c   Welland, M E ^c  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; SELF ASSEMBLY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCNT); THERMOLYSIS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TUBE;

EID: 0035843889     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1057823     Document Type: Article

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