Empirical prediction of electronic potentials of single-walled carbon nanotubes with a specific chirality (n,m)

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hirana, Yasuhiko ^a   Juhasz, Gergely ^a   Miyauchi, Yuhei ^b,c   Mouri, Shinichiro ^b   Matsuda, Kazunari ^b   Nakashima, Naotoshi ^a,c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 84902277289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02959     Document Type: Article

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