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Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7472, 2013, Pages

  Tian, Yongjun ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Yu, Dongli ^a   Ma, Yanming ^b   Wang, Yanbin ^c   Jiang, Yingbing ^d   Hu, Wentao ^a   Tang, Chengchun ^e   Gao, Yufei ^a   Luo, Kun ^a   Zhao, Zhisheng ^a   Wang, Li Min ^a   Wen, Bin ^a   He, Julong ^a   Liu, Zhongyuan ^a  

^a YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE;

NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84886805031     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12621     Document Type: Note

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