Nucleation of graphene and its conversion to single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6104-6108

  Picher, Matthieu ^a,b   Lin, Pin Ann ^a,b   Gomez Ballesteros, Jose L ^c   Balbuena, Perla B ^c   Sharma, Renu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

atomic scale observation; Carbon nanotubes; environmental transmission electron microscopy; graphene; nucleation mechanism

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YARN;

ATOMIC SCALE; CATALYST NANO PARTICLES; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAPHENE SHEETS; NUCLEATION MECHANISM; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TIME-RESOLVED;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84910149368     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl501977b     Document Type: Article

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