Superconductivity in bundles of double-wall carbon nanotubes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shi, Wu ^a   Wang, Zhe ^a   Zhang, Qiucen ^a,d   Zheng, Yuan ^a   Ieong, Chao ^a   He, Mingquan ^a   Lortz, Rolf ^a   Cai, Yuan ^a   Wang, Ning ^a   Zhang, Ting ^a   Zhang, Haijing ^a   Tang, Zikang ^a   Sheng, Ping ^a   Muramatsu, Hiroyuki ^b   Kim, Yoong Ahm ^b   Endo, Morinobu ^b   Araujo, Paulo T ^c   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84866114936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00625     Document Type: Article

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