Theoretical studies of the fullerene growth mechanism: Ring-collapse model to C28 and cascade bond formation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 6355-6364

  Mishra, Rama K ^a,b   Lin, Ying Ting ^a   Lee, Shyi Long ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SAMBALPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 0038754500     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.481196     Document Type: Article

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