Modeling of quasi-one-dimensional carbon nanostructures with density functional theory

Handbook of Computational Chemistry

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 901-938

  Barone, Veronica ^a   Hod, Oded ^b   Peralta, Juan E ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE; NANORIBBONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ONE DIMENSIONAL; YARN;

CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS (GNRS); PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; QUASI-ONE DIMENSIONAL; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84885039651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0711-5_24     Document Type: Chapter

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