Structurally uniform and atomically precise carbon nanostructures

Nature Reviews Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Segawa, Yasutomo ^a,b   Ito, Hideto ^b   Itami, Kenichiro ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84960133896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20588437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2015.2     Document Type: Review

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