Temperature dependence of catalyst-free chirality-controlled single-walled carbon nanotube growth from organic templates

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3176-3180

  Li, Hai Bei ^a   Page, Alister J ^b   Irle, Stephan ^c   Morokuma, Keiji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; chirality; control; cycloparaphenylene; organic template

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPARAPHENYLENE; MOLECULAR PRECURSOR; ORGANIC TEMPLATES; QUANTUM CHEMICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; RADICAL ADDITION REACTIONS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNT); TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; CHIRALITY; CONTROL; DEFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 84884562683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz4015647     Document Type: Article

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