Ultrathin carbon nanotube with single, double, and triple bonds

E Menéndez-Proupin1, Ana L Montero-Alejo, J M García de la Vega

  • 1Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

Physical Review Letters
|September 26, 2012
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