Carbon nanotubes as nanoscale mass conveyors

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6986, 2004, Pages 924-927

  Regan, B C ^a,c   Aloni, S ^a,c   Ritchie, R O ^b,c   Dahmen, U ^c   Zetti, A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMS; MOLECULES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

NANOSCALE MASS CONVEYORS; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON; INDIUM; NANOTUBE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MASS; MOLECULE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 2342437023     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02496     Document Type: Article

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