Closed network growth of fullerenes

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dunk, Paul W ^a   Kaiser, Nathan K ^b   Hendrickson, Christopher L ^a,b   Quinn, John P ^b   Ewels, Christopher P ^c   Nakanishi, Yusuke ^d   Sasaki, Yuki ^d   Shinohara, Hisanori ^d   Marshall, Alan G ^a,b   Kroto, Harold W ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GAS; ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR PROBE; VAPOR; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

CARBON; FULLERENES; GRAPHITE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 84861857988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1853     Document Type: Article

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