Nucleation of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Fan, X ^a,b   Buczko, R ^a,c,d   Puretzky, A A ^a,e   Geohegan, D B ^a   Howe, J Y ^a   Pantelides, S T ^a,d   Pennycook, S J ^a,d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e The University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GRAPHITE; LASER ABLATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NICKEL; NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACES;

DANGLING BONDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0037527908     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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