Fabrication and characterization of fully flattened carbon nanotubes: A new graphene nanoribbon analogue

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Choi, D H ^a   Wang, Q ^a   Azuma, Y ^b   Majima, Y ^b   Warner, J H ^c   Miyata, Y ^a   Shinohara, H ^a   Kitaura, R ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 84885613124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01617     Document Type: Article

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