Buckling and axially compressive properties of perfect and defective single-walled carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2486-2495

  Xin, Hao ^a   Han, Qiang ^a   Yao, Xiao Hu ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL COMPRESSION; BUCKLING; CHIRALITY; EULER EQUATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

HARMONIC ANGLE POTENTIAL; LENNARD-JONES POTENTIAL; MORSE POTENTIAL; PROPER DIHEDRAL POTENTIAL;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 35348879159     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.08.037     Document Type: Article

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