Exotic carbon nanostructures obtained through controllable defect engineering

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 50, 2015, Pages 39930-39937

  Sgouros, A P ^a,b,d   Kalosakas, G ^a,b,c   Sigalas, M M ^a   Papagelis, K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^c Department of Physics   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEFECTS; GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN STORAGE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; POINT DEFECTS; REACTION KINETICS; YARN;

CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES; DEFECT ENGINEERING; ENGINEERED DEFECTS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SPONTANEOUS FORMATION; STONE-WALES DEFECTS; STORAGE OF HYDROGEN;

NANORIBBONS;

EID: 84928963581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra04831a     Document Type: Article

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