Metal atom catalyzed enlargement of fullerenes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Jin, Chuanhong ^a   Lan, Haiping ^b   Suenaga, Kazu ^a   Peng, Lianmao ^b   Iijima, Sumio ^a  

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

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ATOMIC PHYSICS; CARBON; CARBON CLUSTERS; FULLERENES; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METALS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOSTRUCTURES;

CARBON ATOMS; CARBON INCORPORATIONS; FULLERENE CAGES; GIANT FULLERENES; HIGH-RESOLUTION; HIGH-TEMPERATURE; IN-SITU; METAL ATOMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRONS;

ATOMS;

EID: 55049084662     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.176102     Document Type: Article

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