Self-assembled ultrathin nanotubes on diamond (100) surface

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lu, Shaohua ^a,b   Wang, Yanchao ^a   Liu, Hanyu ^a   Miao, Mao Sheng ^b,c   Ma, Yanming ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; DIAMOND; HYDROGEN;

DIAMOND; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REACTION KINETICS;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; COVALENT BOND; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONICS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84898807359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4666     Document Type: Article

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