On the breaking of carbon nanotubes under tension

Nano Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 811-815

  Marques, M A L ^a   Troiani, H E ^b   Miki Yoshida, M ^c   Jose Yacaman, M ^d   Rubio, A ^e  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATERIALES AVANZADOS   (Mexico)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^e DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY YIELD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLE; PREDICTION; TENSION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 2642531699     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl049839t     Document Type: Article

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