Scaling laws for van der Waals interactions in nanostructured materials

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gobre, Vivekanand V ^a   Tkatchenko, Alexandre ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

CARBON; FORCE; FULLERENE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION;

GRAPHITE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84883084148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3341     Document Type: Article

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