Closed-edged graphene nanoribbons from large-diameter collapsed nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6023-6032

  Zhang, Chenguang ^a,c   Bets, Ksenia ^b   Lee, Seung Soo ^a   Sun, Zhengzong ^a   Mirri, Francesca ^b   Colvin, Vicki L ^a   Yakobson, Boris I ^a,b   Tour, James M ^a,b   Hauge, Robert H ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

aluminum iron oxide nanoparticles; carbon carbon van der Waals interaction; collapsed nanotube; double walled carbon nanotubes; graphene nanoribbon; molecular dynamics simulation; single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; OXIDE NANOPARTICLES; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

ALUMINUM; GRAPHENE; IRON OXIDES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 84864225071     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301039v     Document Type: Article

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