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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Electron transport of nanotube-based gas sensors: An ab initio study
   Applied Physics Letters, vol. 92, no. 2, p. 022103, 2008
2. Dislocation Dynamics in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures
   Physical Review Letters, vol. 100, no. 3, 2008
3. Energy decomposition analysis of metal silicide nanowires from first principles
   Physical Review B, vol. 75, no. 3, 2007
4. Calculating carbon nanotube–catalyst adhesion strengths
   Physical Review B, vol. 75, no. 11, 2007
5. Pseudoclimb and Dislocation Dynamics in Superplastic Nanotubes
   Physical Review Letters, vol. 98, no. 7, 2007
6. B_{80} Fullerene: An Ab Initio Prediction of Geometry, Stability, and Electronic Structure
   Physical Review Letters, vol. 98, no. 16, 2007
7. Real Time Microscopy, Kinetics, and Mechanism of Giant Fullerene Evaporation
   Physical Review Letters, vol. 99, no. 17, 2007
8. Gate-induced switching and negative differential resistance in a single-molecule transistor: Emergence of fixed and shifting states with molecular length
   The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 127, no. 2, p. 024901, 2007
9. Nanotube-derived carbon foam for hydrogen sorption
   The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 127, no. 16, p. 164703, 2007
10. Carbon nanotube-enhanced thermal destruction of cancer cells in a noninvasive radiofrequency field
    Cancer, vol. 110, no. 12, pp. 2654–2665, 2007
11. Self-Templated Growth of Carbon-Nanotube Walls at High Temperatures
    Small, vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 1735–1739, 2007
12. Designing carbon nanoframeworks tailored for hydrogen storage
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 439, no. 4-6, pp. 354–359, 2007
13. Interaction of Low-Energy Ions and Atoms of Light Elements with a Fluorinated Carbon Molecular Lattice
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 111, no. 8, pp. 1508–1514, 2007
14. Clustering of Sc on SWNT and Reduction of Hydrogen Uptake: Ab-Initio All-Electron Calculations
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, no. 49, pp. 17977–17980, 2007
15. How Evaporating Carbon Nanotubes Retain Their Perfection?
    Nano Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 681–684, 2007
16. Material science: Oxygen breaks into carbon world
    Nature, vol. 441, no. 7095, Article ID 441818a, 1 pages, 2006
17. An atomistic and non-classical continuum field theoretic perspective of elastic interactions between defects (force dipoles) of various symmetries and application to graphene
    Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 2304–2329, 2006
18. Persistence Length and Nanomechanics of Random Bundles of Nanotubes
    Journal of Nanoparticle Research, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 105–110, 2006
19. From the Cover: Symmetry-, time-, and temperature-dependent strength of carbon nanotubes
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 103, no. 16, pp. 6105–6109, 2006
20. Mechanisms of inelastic scattering of low-energy protons by C6H6, C60, C6F12, and C60F48 molecules
    Physics of the Solid State, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 177–184, 2006
21. Breathing coherent phonons and caps fragmentation in carbon nanotubes following ultrafast laser pulses
    Physical Review B, vol. 74, no. 19, 2006
22. Rate theory of yield in boron nitride nanotubes
    Physical Review B, vol. 72, no. 3, 2005
23. Continuum field model of defect formation in carbon nanotubes
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 97, no. 7, p. 074303, 2005
24. Endohedral silicon nanotubes as thinnest silicide wires
    Physical Review B, vol. 70, no. 24, 2004
25. Microcirculation Study of Rabbit Ear Arterial and Venous Flow-Through Flaps Using a Window Chamber Model
    The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 894–900, 2004
26. Selective Cap Opening in Carbon Nanotubes Driven by Laser-Induced Coherent Phonons
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 92, no. 11, 2004
27. International Journal of Nanoscience, vol. 3, no. 1 & 2, p. 131, 2004
28. Nonlinear analysis of a SWCNT over a bundle of nanotubes
    International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 41, no. 24-25, pp. 6925–6936, 2004
29. Strain-rate and temperature dependent plastic yield in carbon nanotubes from ab initio calculations
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 84, no. 15, p. 2775, 2004
30. Effect of carbon network defects on the electronic structure of semiconductor single-wall carbon nanotubes
    Physics of the Solid State, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 1168–1172, 2004
31. Bond-breaking bifurcation states in carbon nanotube fracture
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 118, no. 21, p. 9485, 2003
32. Publisher’s Note: “Bond-breaking bifurcation states in carbon nanotube fracture” [J. Chem. Phys. 118, 9485 (2003)]
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 119, no. 2, p. 1281, 2003
33. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 18, pp. 5572–5580, 2003
34. Electronic transport through bent carbon nanotubes: Nanoelectromechanical sensors and switches
    Physical Review B, vol. 67, no. 20, 2003
35. Thermodynamics of yield in boron nitride nanotubes
    Physical Review B, vol. 68, no. 8, 2003
36. Fullerene shape transformations via Stone-Wales bond rotations
    Physical Review B, vol. 68, no. 23, 2003
37. Mechanically induced defects and strength of BN nanotubes
    Physical Review B, vol. 65, no. 4, 2002
38. Coalescence of fullerene cages: Topology, energetics, and molecular dynamics simulation
    Physical Review B, vol. 66, no. 19, 2002
39. Energetics of Stone–Wales defects in deformations of monoatomic hexagonal layers
    Computational Materials Science, vol. 23, no. 1-4, pp. 62–72, 2002
40. Curvature-induced polarization in carbon nanoshells
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 360, no. 1-2, pp. 182–188, 2002
41. Strain-induced electronic property heterogeneity of a carbon nanotube
    Physical Review B, vol. 64, no. 3, 2001
42. C_{2}F, BN, and C nanoshell elasticity from ab initio computations
    Physical Review B, vol. 64, no. 23, 2001
43. Atomistic theory of mechanical relaxation in fullerene nanotubes
    Carbon, vol. 38, no. 11-12, pp. 1675–1680, 2000
44. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 104, no. 37, pp. 8764–8767, 2000
45. Theory of growth and mechanical properties of nanotubes
    Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 39–46, 1998
46. Mechanical relaxation and “intramolecular plasticity” in carbon nanotubes
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 72, no. 8, p. 918, 1998
47. The future of the fullerenes
    Solid State Communications, vol. 107, no. 11, pp. 597–606, 1998
48. Consistent methodology for calculating surface and interface energies
    Physical Review B, vol. 57, no. 12, pp. 7281–7291, 1998
49. Mechanism of strain release in carbon nanotubes
    Physical Review B, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. R4277–R4280, 1998
50. Brittle and Ductile Behavior in Carbon Nanotubes
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 81, no. 21, pp. 4656–4659, 1998
51. Optical imaging of carrier dynamics in silicon with subwavelength resolution
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 70, no. 13, p. 1656, 1997
52. High strain rate fracture and C-chain unraveling in carbon nanotubes
    Computational Materials Science, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 341–348, 1997
53. Nanotubes
    Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 706–715, 1997
54. Structural mechanics of carbon nanotubes: From continuum elasticity to atomistic fracture
    Journal of Computer-Aided Materials Design, vol. 3, no. 1-3, pp. 173–182, 1996
55. Tip optics for illumination NSOM: extended-zone approach
    Ultramicroscopy, vol. 57, no. 2-3, pp. 204–207, 1995
56. Kinetics, morphology and pulling regimes for sensing tips in near-field microscopy
    Ultramicroscopy, vol. 57, no. 2-3, pp. 241–245, 1995
57. Thermal/optical effects in NSOM probes
    Ultramicroscopy, vol. 61, no. 1-4, pp. 179–185, 1995
58. Origins and effects of thermal processes on near-field optical probes
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 67, no. 18, p. 2597, 1995
59. Kinetic limits for sensing tip morphology in near-field scanning optical microscopes
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 73, no. 11, p. 7984, 1993
60. Stress-promoted interface diffusion as a precursor of fracture
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 99, no. 9, p. 6923, 1993
61. Environmentally enhanced instability of stressed solids
    Journal of Materials Science, vol. 28, no. 17, pp. 4816–4820, 1993
62. Morphology and rate of fracture in chemical decomposition of solids
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 1590–1593, 1991
63. Radiation-thermal synthesis. Current achievement and outlook
    Solid State Ionics, vol. 36, no. 1-2, pp. 1–6, 1989
64. Thermal decomposition of materials with layered structures Dehydration of calcium sulphate dihydrate single crystals
    Reactivity of Solids, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 359–372, 1987
65. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 88, no. 13, pp. 2679–2682, 1984
66. Kinetics of thermal dehydration of Li2SO4·H2O
    Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, vol. 23, no. 1-2, pp. 125–130, 1983
67. Physical constants of enamel frits
    Glass and Ceramics, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 199–199, 1974