Effect of randomly occurring Stone-Wales defects on mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes using atomistic simulation

Nanotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 555-566

  Lu, Qiang ^a   Bhattacharya, Baidurya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; FRACTURE; STIFFNESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATION (AS); SCATTER; STONE-WALES DEFECTS; ULTRA-HIGH STIFFNESS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 24344466267     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/16/4/037     Document Type: Article

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