An investigation into the cap deformation of carbon nanotube tips using tight-binding molecular dynamics simulation

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5703-5709

  Ju, Shin Pon ^a   Weng, Cheng I ^b   Lin, Chia Hua ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CANTILEVER BEAMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; DEFORMATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GRAPHITE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN;

CARBON RINGS; RADIAL DEFORMATION; SPRING CONSTANTS; SURFACE IMAGE;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 2942612651     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1697639     Document Type: Article

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