Extraordinarily long-ranged structural relaxation in defective achiral carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Hunt, Michael R C ^a   Clark, Stewart J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; LONG NANOTUBE; PENTAGONAL RINGS; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS;

DEFECTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84871754280     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.265502     Document Type: Article

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