Spontaneous cross linking of small-diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 585-587

  Cheng, Hansong ^a   Pez, Guido P ^a   Cooper, Alan C ^a  

^a AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HYDROGEN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; DENSITY; METHODOLOGY; NANOPARTICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; THEORY; TUBE;

EID: 0042259557     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl025970u     Document Type: Article

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