Inorganic nanotubes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1823, 2004, Pages 2099-2125

  Tenne, Reshef ^a   Rao, C N R ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Fullerene like sructures; Fullerenes; IFs; Inorganic nanotubes; Nanotubes

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244248973     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1431     Document Type: Review

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