Electron-beam engineering of single-walled carbon nanotubes from bilayer graphene

Carbon

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 80-86

  Algara Siller, Gerardo ^a,b   Santana, Adriano ^c   Onions, Rosalind ^c   Suyetin, Mikhail ^c   Biskupek, Johannes ^a   Bichoutskaia, Elena ^c   Kaiser, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILAYER GRAPHENE; BILAYER GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION TEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SCANNING MODE; SEMICONDUCTING-SWCNTS; SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNT); STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84884534487     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.07.107     Document Type: Article

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