Graphitic structures: From planar to spheres, toroids and helices

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1715, 1996, Pages 2025-2054

  Terrones, M ^a   Hsu, W K ^a   Hare, J P ^a   Kroto, H W ^a   Terrones, H ^b   Walton, D R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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EID: 3042895988     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0090     Document Type: Article

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