Energetics and stability within the microscopic, empirical model for finite, open-ended, single-walled, carbon nanotubes

Title: Energetics and stability within the microscopic, empirical model for finite, open-ended, single-walled, carbon nanotubes
Creator: Ponomarenko, O.; Radny, M. W.; Smith, P. V.
Relation: Physics Letters A Vol. 310, Issue 2-3, p. 203-206
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9601(03)00287-1
Publisher: Elsevier Science BV
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2003
Description: We demonstrate that the total energy of finite, open-ended, single-walled carbon nanotubes is determined by a balance between the elastic energy due to the curvature of a tube and the chemical energy due to the dangling bonds at the open ends of a tube. The differences in total energy and radius between the most energetically stable zig-zag and armchair tubes, increases with increasing number of atoms in the tubes.
Subject: single-walled carbon nanotubes; energetics; elastic energy; chemical energy; dangling bonds
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26466
Identifier: uon:885
Identifier: ISSN:1050-2947
Language: eng
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