New carbon allotropes with helical chains of complementary chirality connected by ethene-type π-conjugation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Jian Tao ^a   Chen, Changfeng ^b   Kawazoe, Yoshiyuki ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KUTATELADZE INSTITUTE OF THERMOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 84886999148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03077     Document Type: Article

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