Unusual freezing and melting of gallium encapsulated in carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Liu, Zongwen ^a   Bando, Yoshio ^a   Mitome, Masanori ^a   Zhan, Jinhua ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FREEZING; MELTING; NUCLEATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOLIDIFICATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BODY CENTERED CUBIC STRUCTURE; CARBON NANOTUBE SIZE CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATION; GEOMETRICAL CONFINEMENT;

GALLIUM;

EID: 19544369821     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.095504     Document Type: Article

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