| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 50, Number 4, May II 2000
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 494 - 500 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00296-0 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Scanning tunneling microscopy observation of tightly wound, single-wall coiled carbon nanotubes
1
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix rue de Bruxelles 61, B
5000 Namur, Belgium
2
Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science H 1525 Budapest,
P.O. Box 49, Hungary
Received:
23
July
1999
Accepted:
6
March
2000
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of carbon nanotubes grown by the catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons, which exhibit a well-defined axial periodicity in the 1 nm range, are reported. The data are interpreted as tightly wound, single-wall, coiled carbon nanotubes with an interspire distance of 0.34 nm as the distance between graphene layers in graphite or the distance of single-wall carbon nanotubes in ropes.
PACS: 61.48.+c – Fullerenes and fullerene-related materials / 61.16.Ch – Scanning probe microscopy: scanning tunneling, atomic force, scanning optical, magnetic force, etc / 81.05.Tp – Fullerenes and related materials; diamonds, graphite
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