Compressed carbon nanotubes: A family of new multifunctional carbon allotropes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hu, Meng ^a   Zhao, Zhisheng ^a,d   Tian, Fei ^b   Oganov, Artem R ^c   Wang, Qianqian ^a   Xiong, Mei ^a   Fan, Changzeng ^a   Wen, Bin ^a   He, Julong ^a   Yu, Dongli ^a   Wang, Hui Tian ^b   Xu, Bo ^a   Tian, Yongjun ^a  

^a YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; QUANTUM THEORY; STEREOISOMERISM;

CARBON; ELECTRONS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NANOTUBES, CARBON; QUANTUM THEORY; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84882306701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01331     Document Type: Article

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