Equilibrium at the edge and atomistic mechanisms of graphene growth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15136-15140

  Artyukhov, Vasilii I ^a   Liu, Yuanyue ^a   Yakobson, Boris I ^a,b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Growth shape; Kinetics; Wulff construction

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GRAPHENE; NANOTUBE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOM; CATALYST; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR;

ANISOTROPY; CARBON; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; KINETICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

RUMEX;

EID: 84866536055     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207519109     Document Type: Article

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