Atomic nanotube welders: Boron interstitials triggering connections in double-walled carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1099-1105

  Endo, Morinobu ^a   Muramatsu, Hiroyuki ^a   Hayashi, Takuya ^a   Kim, Yoong Ahm ^a   Van Lier, Gregory ^b   Charlier, Jean Christophe ^b   Terrones, Humberto ^c   Terrones, Mauricio ^c   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^d  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFOAMS; DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (DWNT); MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MNNT); THERMAL ANNEALING;

ANNEALING; BORON; COALESCENCE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLYMERIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

BORON; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; HEAT; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BORON; CARBON; ELECTRONS; HEAT; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 21644475685     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl050627l     Document Type: Article

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