Van der Waals interaction between two crossed carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5937-5945

  Zhbanov, Alexander I ^a,b   Pogorelov, Evgeny G ^a   Chang, Yia Chung ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; equilibrium distance; Lennard Jones potential; smeared out approximation; van der Waals interaction

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ATTRACTIVE FORCE; CARBON ATOMS; ELLIPTICAL FUNCTIONS; EQUILIBRIUM DISTANCES; EXACT FORMULAS; LENNARD-JONES POTENTIAL; MULTIWALL NANOTUBES; POTENTIAL CURVES; SMEARED-OUT APPROXIMATION; VAN DER WAALS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RATIONAL FUNCTIONS;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICS; RADIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CARBON; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PHYSICS; RADIATION;

EID: 78049341411     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100731u     Document Type: Article

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