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ISRN Nanotechnology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 871208, 4 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/871208
Research Article
Synthesis of Cobalt-Encapsulated Carbon Nanocapsules Using Cobalt-Doped Fullerene Nanowhiskers
1Institute of Materials Science, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Tsukuba, 305-8753, Japan
2Fullerene Engineering Group, Advanced Materials Processing Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki, Ibaraki Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
Received 24 December 2011; Accepted 11 January 2012
Academic Editors: C. S. Casari and Y. Song
Copyright © 2012 Daisuke Matsuura 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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