Nanoplasticity of single-wall carbon nanotubes under uniaxial compression

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2973-2976

  Srivastava, Deepak ^a   Menon, Madhu ^b   Cho, Kyeongjae ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPRESSION TESTING; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLASTICITY; QUANTUM THEORY; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

NANOPLASTICITY; QUANTUM GENERALIZED TIGHT-BINDING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (GTBMD); RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS (RDF);

NANOTUBES;

EID: 13044283435     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.83.2973     Document Type: Article

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