- 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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