Graphene and nano-diamond synthesis in expansions of molten liquid carbon

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 141, Issue 16, 2014, Pages

  Ileri, Nazar ^a   Goldman, Nir ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF STATE; EXPANSION; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; NANODIAMONDS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CARBON-CONTAINING MATERIALS; HIGH-PRESSURE EXPERIMENT; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS; SHOCK COMPRESSIONS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84908439426     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: 10897690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4899071     Document Type: Article

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