Energetics and stability of nanostructured amorphous carbon

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Fyta, M G ^a   Remediakis, I N ^a   Kelires, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FRACTIONATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOPARTICLE; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037437982     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.035423     Document Type: Article

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