Growth of carbon nanotubes on metal nanoparticles: A microscopic mechanism from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Raty, Jean Yves ^a,b   Gygi, François ^a   Galli, Giulia ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE SURFACE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNT);

ALLOYING; CATALYSTS; IRON; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 27144523176     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.096103     Document Type: Article

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