DFT study of the elastic properties of pristine and moderately fluorinated single-walled carbon nanotubes

Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 781-788

  Petrushenko, Igor K ^a   Ivanov, Nikolay A ^a  

^a IRKUTSK NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Density functional theory (DFT); Fluorination; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FLUORINATION; FLUORINE; HALOGENATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

DFT STUDY; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; FLUORINE ATOMS; GENERAL TRENDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; THEORETICAL STUDY; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULI;

EID: 84896340111     PISSN: 1536383X     EISSN: 15364046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1536383X.2012.731585     Document Type: Article

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