Initiation of carbon nanotube growth by well-defined carbon nanorings

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 572-576

  Omachi, Haruka ^a   Nakayama, Takuya ^a   Takahashi, Eri ^b   Segawa, Yasutomo ^a   Itami, Kenichiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJIFILM CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STEREOISOMERISM;

NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84879376438     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1655     Document Type: Article

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