Thermally activated interlayer bonding in multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 114, Issue 42, 2010, Pages 18091-18095

  Tang, Chun ^a,b   Zhang, Yi ^a   Guo, Wanlin ^b   Chen, Changfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE APPLICATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-TEMPERATURE TENSILE; INTERLAYER BONDING; INTERLAYER BONDS; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITIES; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; THEORETICAL RESULT; THERMAL ENGINEERING; THERMAL TREATMENT; THERMALLY ACTIVATED;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 77958588969     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp106444n     Document Type: Article

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