Interacting quasi-two-dimensional sheets of interlinked carbon nanotubes: A high-pressure phase of carbon

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3515-3521

  Saxena, Sumit ^a   Tyson, Trevor A ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Density functional theory; Electronic structure; Hydrostatic pressure; Van der waals

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM SEPARATION; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; HEXAGONAL PHASE; HIGH-PRESSURE PHASE; LARGE DIAMETER; NANOTUBE BUNDLES; PSEUDO-GAP; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; VAN DER WAALS;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NANOTUBES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); STEREOCHEMISTRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77955913167     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100626z     Document Type: Article

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