Crystalline ropes of metallic carbon nanotubes

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5274, 1996, Pages 483-487

  Thess, Andreas ^a   Lee, Roland ^a   Nikolaev, Pavel ^a   Dai, Hongjie ^a   Petit, Pierre ^a   Robert, Jerome ^a   Xu, Chunhui ^a   Lee, Young Hee ^a   Kim, Seong Gon ^a   Rinzler, Andrew G ^a   Colbert, Daniel T ^a   Scuseria, Gustavo E ^a   Tománek, David ^a   Fischer, John E ^a   Smalley, Richard E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COBALT; GRAPHITE; METAL; NICKEL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LASER; MOLECULAR SIZE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPORIZATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 6444244907     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5274.483     Document Type: Article

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39. Supported by the Office of Naval Research (grant N0014-91-J1794 and order number N00014-95-F-0099), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (grant F49620-95-0203), the Advanced Technology Program of the State of Texas (grant 003604-047), NSF (grants DMR-95-22251, CHE-93-21297, and PHY-92-24745), the Robert A. Welch Foundation (grant C-0689), the U.S. Department of Energy (grant DEFC02-86ER45254), and CNRS.