Controlling nanotube dimensions: Correlation between composition, diameter, and internal energy of single- Walled mixed oxide nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 393-402

  Konduri, Suchitra ^a   Mukherjee, Sanjoy ^a   Nair, Sankar ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Composition; Diameter; Energy; Molecular dynamics; Nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL DATA; DIAMETER; ENERGY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; FORMATION MECHANISM; GE CONTENT; INORGANIC NANOTUBES; INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL MODELS; INTERNAL ENERGIES; LIQUID PHASE; MIXED OXIDE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANOTUBE DIAMETERS; POTENTIAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE CORRELATION; SI/GE; SINGLE-WALLED;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GERMANIUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOTUBES;

ALUMINUM; GERMANIUM; NANOTUBE; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALUMINUM; GERMANIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTUBES; OXIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 42949106362     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn700104e     Document Type: Article

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