Exceptionally high Young's modulus observed for individual carbon nanotubes

Nature

Volumn 381, Issue 6584, 1996, Pages 678-680

  Treacy, M M J ^a   Ebbesen, T W ^a   Gibson, J M ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 3242834384     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/381678a0     Document Type: Article

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