Nanoparticle-templated carbon nanotube ring nucleus formation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 2580-2582

  Hester, James R ^a   Louchev, Oleg A ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS; POTENTIAL BARRIERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOSHEETS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 79955992377     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1465112     Document Type: Article

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