Rotational dynamics of confined C60 from near-infrared Raman studies under high pressure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 52, 2009, Pages 22135-22138

  Zou, Yonggang ^a   Liu, Bingbing ^a   Wang, Liancheng ^a   Liu, Dedi ^a   Yu, Shidan ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Wang, Tianyi ^a   Yao, Mingguang ^a   Li, Quanjun ^a   Zou, Bo ^a   Cui, Tian ^a   Zou, Guangtian ^a   Wågberg, Thomas ^b   Sundqvist, Bertil ^b   Mao, Ho Kwang ^a,c  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular rotation; Peapods

Indexed keywords

CARBON; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; HYPERBARISM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 76049117559     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911963106     Document Type: Article

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