Smallest Nanotube: Breaking the Symmetry of sp3 Bonds in Tubular Geometries

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Stojkovic, Dragan ^a   Zhang, Peihong ^a   Crespi, Vincent H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPOSITION; ENERGY GAP; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; STOICHIOMETRY;

BOND ANGLE DISTORTION; TUBULAR GEOMETRIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 39249084987     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.125502     Document Type: Article

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