Formation mechanism of peapod-derived double-walled carbon nanotubes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ding, Feng ^a,b   Xu, Ziwei ^a   Yakobson, Boris I ^a,b   Young, Robert J ^a,c   Kinloch, Ian A ^c   Cui, Shuang ^c   Deng, Libo ^c   Puech, Pascal ^d   Monthioux, Marc ^d  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d CEMES CNRS   (France)

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EID: 77956671559     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.041403     Document Type: Article

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