Selection of single-walled Carbon Nanotubes according to both their diameter and Chirality via Nanotweezers

Nano Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 296-306

  Zhou, Jing ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Lu, Jing ^a   Luo, Guangfu ^a   Lai, Lin ^a   Qin, Rui ^a   Wang, Lu ^a   Nagase, Shigeru ^b   Gao, Zhengxiang ^a   Mei, Waining ^c   Li, Guangping ^d   Yu, Dapeng ^a   Sanvito, Stefano ^e  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Density functional theory; Nanotweezer; Selective adsorption

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949480505     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-010-1033-1     Document Type: Article

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