Changing chirality during single-walled carbon nanotube growth: A reactive molecular dynamics/monte carlo study

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 43, 2011, Pages 17225-17231

  Neyts, Erik C ^a   Van Duin, Adri C T ^b   Bogaerts, Annemie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NETWORK; CLUSTER SURFACES; GROWTH MECHANISMS; GROWTH PROCESS; INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL; METALLIC PARTICLES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NICKEL-NANOCLUSTERS; RESTRUCTURING PROCESS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; SWNT GROWTH; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

AGGLOMERATION; CARBON CLUSTERS; CHIRALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; ENANTIOMERS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOCLUSTERS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SURFACE SEGREGATION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 80054970523     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja204023c     Document Type: Article

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