Calculating carbon nanotube–catalyst adhesion strengths
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Peter Larsson,1 J. Andreas Larsson,2 Rajeev Ahuja,1 Feng Ding,3,4 Boris I. Yakobson,4 Haiming Duan,3,* Arne Rosén,3 and Kim Bolton3,5 1Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 530, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden 2Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Lee Maltings, Prospect Row, Cork, Ireland 3Physics Department, Göteborg University, Göteborg, SE-412 96, Sweden 4ME&MS Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA 5School of Engineering, University College of Borås, Borås SE-501 90, Sweden Received 7 November 2006; published 20 March 2007
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