Formation and properties of selenium double-helices inside double-wall carbon nanotubes: Experiment and theory

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5607-5613

  Fujimori, Toshihiko ^a   Dos Santos, Renato Batista ^b,c   Hayashi, Takuya ^a   Endo, Morinobu ^a   Kaneko, Katsumi ^a   Tománek, David ^c  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ab initio density functional calculation; density of states; double helix; double wall carbon nanotube; selenium

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ATOMIC ARRANGEMENT; COVALENTLY BONDED; DENSITY OF STATE; DOUBLE HELIX STRUCTURE; DOUBLE-HELIX; DOUBLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES;

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; SELENIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84879611883     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4019703     Document Type: Article

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