Structures of D5dC80 and ih-Er 3N @C80 fullerenes and their rotation inside carbon nanotubes demonstrated by aberration-corrected electron microscopy

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3704-3708

  Sato, Yuta ^a   Suenaga, Kazu ^a   Okubo, Shingo ^a   Okazaki, Toshiya ^a   Lijima, Sumio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ATOMIC LEVEL RESOLUTION; GRAPHENE WALLS; SYMMETRY AXIS;

FULLERENES;

EID: 38049178230     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0720152     Document Type: Article

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