Stabilization of graphene nanopore

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7522-7526

  Lee, Jaekwang ^a,b   Yang, Zhiqing ^c   Zhou, Wu ^a   Pennycook, Stephen J ^b,d   Pantelides, Sokrates T ^b,c   Chisholm, Matthew F ^a,d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^d University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Nanopore stabilization; Self healing process; STEM imaging

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GRAPHENE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL BOND; DENDRITE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON BEAM; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NANOFABRICATION; NANOPORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY; NANOPORE STABILIZATION; SELF-HEALING PROCESS; STEM IMAGING;

CARBON; GRAPHITE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPORES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SILICON;

EID: 84901660450     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1400767111     Document Type: Article

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