Extensive energy landscape sampling of nanotube end-caps reveals no chiral-angle bias for their nucleation

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1899-1906

  Penev, Evgeni S ^a   Artyukhov, Vasilii I ^a   Yakobson, Boris I ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

atomistic modeling; carbon nanotubes; chiral angle selectivity; nucleation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894633413     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406462e     Document Type: Article

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