Trapping of metal atoms in vacancies of carbon nanotubes and graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3422-3428

  Rodríguez Manzo, Julio A ^a   Cretu, Ovidiu ^a   Banhart, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Graphene; In situ electron microscopy; Lattice defects; Nanostructuring

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PRECISION; DE-TRAPPING; FOREIGN ATOMS; GRAPHENE LAYERS; GRAPHENES; IN-SITU ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LATTICE DEFECTS; METAL ATOMS; NANO-STRUCTURING; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SINGLE METAL ATOMS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TRAPPING CENTERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DEFECTS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; GRAPHENE; METALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ATOMS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE; METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77955854646     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100356q     Document Type: Article

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