Relative stability and local curvature analysis in carbon nanotori

We introduce a concise formalism to characterize nanometer-sized tori based on carbon nanotubes and to determine their stability by combining ab initio density functional calculations with a continuum elasticity theory approach that requires only shape information. We find that the high strain energ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chuang, Chern, Guan, Jie, Witalka, David, Zhu, Zhen, Jin, Bih-Yaw, Tomanek, David
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96847
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-1880