Symmetry-driven phase transformations in single-wall carbon-nanotube bundles under hydrostatic pressure

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 1-4

  Sluiter, Marcel H F ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a,b   Kawazoe, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Dr Vijay Kumar Foundation   (India)

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EID: 85038298559     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.161402     Document Type: Article

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