Growth of chiral single-walled carbon nanotube caps in the presence of a cobalt cluster

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Gómez Gualdrón, Diego A ^a   Balbuena, Perla B ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ADDITION; CARBON ATOMS; CARBON DISSOLUTION; CHIRAL NANOTUBE; CLUSTER SYSTEMS; COBALT ATOMS; COBALT CLUSTERS; DISSOLUTION STAGE; GROWTH MECHANISMS; GROWTH REACTIONS; HEXAGONAL RINGS; METAL CLUSTER; NANOTUBE GROWTH;

ATOMS; CARBON CLUSTERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISSOLUTION; METAL RECOVERY; OLIGOMERS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON; COBALT; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISSOLUTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; GEOMETRY; GROWTH RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COBALT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 67649147986     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/21/215601     Document Type: Article

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