Radial Corrugations of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Driven by Inter-Wall Nonbonding Interactions

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Huang, Xu ^a   Liang, Wentao ^a   Zhang, Sulin ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Quasi continuum; Radial corrugation; vdW interactions

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOTUBES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; CONTINUUM SIMULATIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL CONFIGURATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM DISTANCES; NON-BONDING INTERACTIONS; QUASI-CONTINUUM; RADIAL CORRUGATION; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTION; ENERGY RELEASE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; MECHANICAL CONTROL; POLYGONAL SHAPES; POLYGONIZATION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 79952704270     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11671-010-9801-0     Document Type: Article

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