Carbon nanotube transmission between linear and rotational motions

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 95-102

  Jiang, Hanqing ^a   Lu, Junqiang ^b   Yu, Min Feng ^b   Huang, Yonggang ^c  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Double walled carbon nanotubes; Electrical conductance; Rotational motion; Telescoping

Indexed keywords

NANOMETROLOGY DEVICES; PERIODIC VARIATION; ROTATIONAL MOTIONS;

CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; ROTATION; TELESCOPES;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 41649104902     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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