Observations of chemical reactions at the atomic scale: Dynamics of metal-mediated fullerene coalescence and nanotube rupture

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 193-196

  Chuvilin, Andrey ^a   Khlobystov, Andrei N ^b   Obergfell, Dirk ^c   Haluska, Miroslav ^c,d   Yang, Shihe ^e   Roth, Siegmar ^c,f   Kaiser, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^f Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Fullerenes; Nanoscale reactors; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DYSPROSIUM; FULLERENES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; ATOMIC SCALE; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; END CAPS; NANOSCALE REACTORS;

YARN;

EID: 73349112887     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200902243     Document Type: Article

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