Patching and Tearing Single-Wall Carbon-Nanotube Ropes into Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 25, 2002, Pages

  López, María J ^a   Rubio, Angel ^b   Alonso, Julio A ^a   Lefrant, Serge ^c   Méténier, Karine ^d   Bonnamy, Sylvie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^d CNRS Universite   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TREATMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY SCATTERING;

MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBES; PATCHING-AND-TEARING MECHANISM; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0037122342     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.255501     Document Type: Article

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