Fivefold twinned boron carbide nanowires

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 36, 2009, Pages

  Fu, Xin ^a   Jiang, Jun ^a   Liu, Chao ^a   Yuan, Jun ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; AXIAL ROTATION; BORON-RICH COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; INTRINSIC HARDNESS; MISFIT STRAINS;

BORON; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOWIRES; STRAIN;

BORON CARBIDE;

BORON CARBIDE; BORON DERIVATIVE; CARBON; NANOWIRE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; HARDNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 70349123086     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/36/365707     Document Type: Article

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