Formation energy of Stone-Wales defects in carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1222-1224

  Zhou, L G ^a,b   Shi, San Qiang ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEFECTS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); THERMODYNAMICS;

STONE-WALES DEFECTS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0042425891     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1599961     Document Type: Article

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