Benzene-derived carbon nanothreads

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-47

  Fitzgibbons, Thomas C ^a   Guthrie, Malcolm ^b   Xu, En Shi ^a   Crespi, Vincent H ^a   Davidowski, Stephen K ^c   Cody, George D ^b   Alem, Nasim ^a   Badding, John V ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; BENZENE; CALCULATIONS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YARN; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

CARBON NANO-MATERIALS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HIGH-PRESSURE SOLIDS; MACROSCOPIC QUANTITIES; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SHORT-RANGE ORDERED; STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS; X-RAY AND NEUTRON DIFFRACTION;

SOLID STATE REACTIONS;

EID: 84924362387     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4088     Document Type: Article

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