Prediction of ordered phases of encapsulated C60, C 70, and C78 inside carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 349-355

  Troche, Karla S ^a   Coluci, Vitor R ^a   Braga, Scheila F ^a   Chinellato, David D ^a   Sato, Fernando ^a   Legoas, Sergio B ^b   Rurali, Riccardo ^c   Galvão, Douglas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; FULLERENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ASYMMETRIC FULLERENES; CONTINUUM MODELS; ROTATIONAL STRUCTURE; TWO-MOLECULAR LAYERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FULLERENES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 14644417135     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl047930r     Document Type: Article

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