Thermal Contraction of Carbon Fullerenes and Nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 159011-159014

  Kwon, Young Kyun ^a,b   Berber, Savas ^a   Tománek, David ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nanomix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON COMPOUNDS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; GRAPHITE; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PHONONS; POLYETHYLENES; THERMAL EXPANSION;

HOLLOW NANOSTRUCTURES; VIBRATIONAL ENTROPY;

FULLERENES;

EID: 1242329513     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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