Nanomechanics of carbon tubes: Instabilities beyond linear response

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 2511-2514

  Yakobson, B I ^a   Brabec, C J ^a   Bernholc, J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON TUBE; CONTINUUM SHELL MODEL; HOOKE'S LAW; LINEAR RESPONSE; MANY-BODY POTENTIALS; MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERNS; ROADMAP; SHAPE CHANGE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 33750050422     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2511     Document Type: Article

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