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ISRN Condensed Matter Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 368634, 5 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/368634
Research Article

Electronic Structure Calculation of Adsorbate Gas Molecules on an Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon

Khadije Imani,1 Gholamhossein Jafari,2 and Mohammad Reza Abolhasani3

1Department of Physics, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Karaj 31485-313, Iran
2Department of Physics, Islamic Azad University, Shahryar Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Tehran, Iran
3Department of Physics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-175, Iran

Received 30 August 2012; Accepted 5 October 2012

Academic Editors: V. Cataudella, Y. Kopelevich, J. J. Quinn, and A. D. Zaikin

Copyright © 2012 Khadije Imani et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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