Structure of chiral single-walled carbon nanotubes under hydrostatic pressure

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 297-302

  Imtani, Ali Nasir ^a   Jindal, V K ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bond lengths; Carbon nanotubes; Nanotube radius; Pressure; Tube length

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; BOND ANGLE; C-C BONDS; CROSS SECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE; ELLIPTICAL CROSS SECTION; NANOTUBE RADIUS; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TERSOFF POTENTIAL; TRANSITION PRESSURE; TUBE LENGTH;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); STEREOCHEMISTRY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BOND LENGTH;

EID: 67651121786     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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