Investigating the diameter-dependent stability of single-walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1557-1563

  Warner, Jamie H ^a   Schäffel, Franziska ^b   Zhong, Guofang ^c   Rümmeli, Mark H ^b   Büchner, Bernd ^b   Robertson, John ^c   Briggs, G Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron beam irradiation; Hrtem; Single walled carbon nanotubes; SWNTs; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DAMAGE THRESHOLD; DEPENDENT STABILITY; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; HRTEM; IN-SITU MONITORING; SIDE WALLS; SMALL-DIAMETER; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS; SWNTS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; IRRADIATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 67651225475     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900362a     Document Type: Article

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