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buckyroll

buckyroll noun: nanoscroll (especially one made of carbon).

Noun

buckyroll (plural buckyrolls)

  1. (rare) nanoscroll (especially one made of carbon)
    • To investigate the effect of chirality on the buckyroll assembly, three deferent types of graphene strips, zigzag, armchair and chiral, are selected in the present simulations2010 March, Xinghua Shi, Nicola M.Pugno, Huajian Gao, “Tunable core size of carbon nanoscrolls”, in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, volume 7, number 3
    • Characteristic dimensions of carbon nanoscrolls - "buckyrolls" - are calculated by analyzing the competition between ...2010 April, M. M. Fogler, A. H. Castro Neto, F. Guinea, “Effect of external conditions on the structure of scrolled graphene edges”, in Physical Review B, volume 81, number 16

Forms of buckyroll

pluralbuckyrolls

Questions about buckyroll

What does buckyroll mean?
Buckyroll means nanoscroll (especially one made of carbon).
What part of speech is buckyroll?
Buckyroll is a noun.
What is the plural of buckyroll?
The plural of buckyroll is buckyrolls.

Words near buckyroll in the dictionary

  1. buckybowls
  2. buckyonion
  3. buckyonions
  4. buckypaper
  5. buckypapers
  6. buckyroll
  7. buckyrolls
  8. buckytube
  9. buckytubes
  10. bucladesine
  11. buclicine

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