Identification of active atomic defects in a monolayered tungsten disulphide nanoribbon

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Zheng ^a   Suenaga, Kazu ^a   Wang, Zhiyong ^b   Shi, Zujin ^b   Okunishi, Eiji ^c   Iijima, Sumio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JEOL LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANORIBBON; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TUNGSTEN;

ARTICLE; ATOM; DISULFIDE BOND; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 79952352231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1224     Document Type: Article

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