Coil formation in multishell carbon nanotubes: Competition between curvature elasticity and interlayer adhesion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4055-4058

  Zhong can, Ou Yang ^a   Su, Zhao Bin ^a   Wang, Chui Lin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b CCAST WORLD LABORATORY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; GRAPHITE; SURFACE TENSION; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

COIL FORMATION PROCESS; INTERLAYER ADHESION; MULTISHELL CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON;

EID: 4243478298     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4055     Document Type: Article

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