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Tensile tests on individual multi-walled boron nitride nanotubes
Xianlong Wei1, Ming-Sheng Wang, Yoshio Bando
1International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan. weixl@pku.edu.cn
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|August 24, 2010
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