X-ray observation of a helium atom and placing a nitrogen atom inside He@C 60 and He@C 70

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Morinaka, Yuta ^a   Sato, Satoru ^b   Wakamiya, Atsushi ^a   Nikawa, Hidefumi ^b   Mizorogi, Naomi ^b   Tanabe, Fumiyuki ^a   Murata, Michihisa ^a   Komatsu, Koichi ^a   Furukawa, Ko ^c   Kato, Tatsuhisa ^a   Nagase, Shigeru ^d   Akasaka, Takeshi ^b   Murata, Yasujiro ^a,e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE; HELIUM; NITROGEN;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENCAPSULATION; FULLERENE; HELIUM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENCAPSULATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875882346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2574     Document Type: Article

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