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February 13, 2015

New understanding of electron behavior at tips of carbon nanocones could help provide candidates
Bratislava, Slovakia (SPX) Feb 11, 2015
One of the ways of improving electrons manipulation is though better control over one of their inner characteristics, called spin. This approach is the object of an entire field of study, known as spintronics. Now, Richard Pincak from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and colleagues have just uncovered new possibilities for manipulating the electrons on the tips of graphitic nanocones. Indeed, in a study published in EPJ B, they have shown that because the tip area offers the greatest curvature, it g ... read more

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