Structural and electronic properties of the metal-metal intramoleular junctions of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 23, 2004, Pages

  Fa, Wei ^a,b   Chen, Jiangwei ^a   Liu, Hong ^c   Dong, Jinming ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; METAL;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; FORCE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION;

EID: 42749104615     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.235413     Document Type: Article

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