Graphite-to-amorphous structural transformation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes under proton beam irradiation

Materials Letters

Volumn 63, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1505-1507

  Ishaq, Ahmad ^a,b   Yan, Long ^a   Gong, Jinlong ^a   Zhu, Dezhang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Ion beam irradiation; Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs); Structural transformation

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS NANOWIRES; AMORPHOUS STRUCTURES; BEAM IRRADIATIONS; EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS; GRAPHITE STRUCTURES; HOLLOW STRUCTURES; INNER TUBES; INNER WALLS; ION BEAM IRRADIATION; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCNTS); ROOM TEMPERATURES; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; ELECTRIC WIRE; GRAPHITE; ION BEAMS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PROTON BEAMS; PROTON IRRADIATION; PROTONS; RADIATION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 67349174986     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2009.03.058     Document Type: Article

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