Comparison of single-walled carbon nanotube growth from Fe and Ni nanoparticles using quantum chemical molecular dynamics methods

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3014-3026

  Page, Alister J ^a   Minami, Soma ^a   Ohta, Yasuhito ^b   Irle, Stephan ^c   Morokuma, Keiji ^a,d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; CHAINS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NICKEL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; YARN;

CARBON ARC EXPERIMENTS; CATALYST PARTICLES; LASER EVAPORATION; QUANTUM CHEMICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RELATIVE STABILITIES; RELATIVE STRENGTH; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; SUBSURFACE REGIONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 77958102349     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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