Molecular dynamics in the formation process of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Heat Transfer - Asian Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 690-699

  Shibuta, Yasushi ^a   Maruyama, Shigeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brenner potential; Growth mechanism; Molecular dynamics simulation; Nickel atoms; SWNTs

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FULLERENES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NICKEL; NUCLEATION; VAPORIZATION;

RANDOM CAGE CLUSTERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

NANOTUBE;

EID: 0347355322     PISSN: 10992871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/htj.10123     Document Type: Article

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