Elastic distortions of carbon nanotubes induced by chiral fullerene chains.

We show that when Y@C82 metallofullerenes are inserted into single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with large diameters of 2 nm, the minimum energy configuration is a double-helix chiral structure extending over hundreds of nanometers. We demonstrate rotation of the double-helix fullerene chain with...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Warner, J, Wilson, M
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2010