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Synthesis and Functionalization of Nitrogen-doped Carbon Nanotube Cups with Gold Nanoparticles as Cork Stoppers
Published on: May 13, 2013
Preparation of nitrogen-rich nanolayered, nanoclustered, and nanodendritic carbon nitrides
My Hang V Huynh1, Michael A Hiskey, Jose G Archuleta
1Dynamic Experimentation Division, DX-2: Materials Dynamics Group, MS C920, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. huynh@lanl.gov
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|December 22, 2004
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