Bending instability characteristics of double-walled carbon nanotubes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Wang, Quan ^a   Hu, Ting ^b   Chen, Guanhua ^c   Jiang, Qing ^b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELASTICITY; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NANOTUBE; SIMULATION;

EID: 15744364672     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.045403     Document Type: Article

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