Structural instability of single wall carbon nanotube edges from first principles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Zubaer Hossain, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO SIMULATIONS; CHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; EDGE-ATOMS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; STRUCTURAL INSTABILITY; ZIG-ZAG NANOTUBES;

ATOMS; DANGLING BONDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 70350077531     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3250159     Document Type: Article

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