Self-assembly of graphene nanostructures on nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1798-1804

  Patra, Niladri ^a   Song, Yuanbo ^a   Král, Petr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; graphene; molecular dynamics; nanostructures; self assembly

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY CONDITION; IN-VACUUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PLANAR GRAPHENE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; GRAPHENE; NANOSTRUCTURES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

GRAPHITE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; MACROMOLECULE; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79952907923     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102531h     Document Type: Article

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