The stability of a vertical single-walled carbon nanotube under its own weight

Materials and Design

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 453-457

  Wang, Gen Wei ^a,b   Zhao, Ya Pu ^a   Yang, Gui Tong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Critical length; Nanotweezer; Stability

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

CRITICAL RATIOS; ELASTIC RESILIENCE; NANOTWEEZERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; NANOTUBE; WEIGHT;

EID: 2442709341     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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