Atomic scale growth dynamics of nanocrystals within carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1410-1417

  Warner, Jamie H ^a   Plant, Simon R ^a   Young, Neil P ^a   Porfyrakis, Kyriakos ^a   Kirkland, Angus I ^a   Briggs, G Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aberration corrected; HRTEM; nanocrystals; nanotubes; peapods

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC RESOLUTION; ATOMIC SCALE; GROWTH DYNAMICS; HRTEM; IN-SITU; LOW-VOLTAGE; METALLOFULLERENES; NANOCRYSTAL FORMATION; PEA PODS; REAL TIME MONITORING; SINGLE ATOMS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION;

ATOMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; NANOCRYSTALS;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 79951887893     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1031802     Document Type: Article

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