Effect of the laser heating of nanotube nuclei on the nanotube type population

Nano Research

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 818-827

  Nikolaev, Pavel ^a   Holmes, William ^b   Sosa, Edward ^c   Boul, Peter ^c   Arepalli, Sivaram ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanotube population; Nanotube synthesis; Pulsed laser vaporization

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350588801     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-009-9086-8     Document Type: Article

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