Bundling up carbon nanotubes through wigner defects

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1045-1049

  Da Silva, Antonio J R ^a   Fazzio, A ^a   Antonelli, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; CHEMICAL BONDS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; GRAPHITE; IRRADIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; ROTATION;

ENERGY DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; INTERSTITIAL ATOMS; NANOTUBE BUNDLES; WIGNER DEFECTS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

CARBON; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 21644451632     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl050457c     Document Type: Article

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