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The Mobility of Carbon Atoms in Graphitic Nanoparticles Studied by the Relaxation of Strain in Carbon Onions
Author(s) -
Gan Yanjie,
Banhart Florian
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200800574
Subject(s) - materials science , annealing (glass) , carbon fibers , nanoparticle , atom (system on chip) , fullerene , relaxation (psychology) , chemical physics , strain (injury) , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , composite material , composite number , organic chemistry , chemistry , computer science , embedded system , medicine , psychology , social psychology , physics , engineering
Carbon onions can be set in a state of heavy self‐compression when irradiated with an electron beam. Annealing at high temperature relaxes the structure by an exchange of atoms between the shells. This gives us the possibility tostudy atom jumps quantitatively.