Torsional stick-slip behavior in WS2 nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Nagapriya, K S ^a   Goldbart, Ohad ^a   Kaplan Ashiri, Ifat ^a   Seifert, Gotthard ^b   Tenne, Reshef ^a   Joselevich, Ernesto ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; TUNGSTEN;

EXTERNAL TORQUES; INNER WALLS; INTERWALL; SHEAR STIFFNESSES; SLIP BEHAVIORS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TORQUE OSCILLATIONS; TORSION ANGLES; TUNGSTEN DISULFIDES; WALL SLIPS;

SLIP FORMING;

EID: 55849152396     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.195501     Document Type: Article

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