Oxygen breaks into carbon world

Pulickel M. Ajayan () and Boris I. Yakobson ()
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Pulickel M. Ajayan: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Boris I. Yakobson: Rice University

Nature, 2006, vol. 441, issue 7095, 818-819

Abstract: When oxygen atoms bind to a graphite surface, they fall into line and make bridges across carbon atoms. This is the spearhead of a chemical attack in which the atomic arrangement of solid carbon is torn apart.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1038/441818a

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