Manipulation and cutting of carbon nanotubes

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 47, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 1696-1700

  Zhang, Yujun ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Hu, Yuanzhong ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Huang, Lan ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Carbon nanotube; Nanocutting; Nanofabrication; Nanomanipulation

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL; DEFORMITY; MECHANICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TUBE;

EID: 18744371851     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02tb9370     Document Type: Article

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