Atomic structure and energy distribution of collapsed carbon nanotubes of different chiralities

• Main Authors: Baimova, Julia A., Fan, Qin, Zeng, Liangcai, Wang, Zhigang, Dmitriev, Sergey V., Feng, Xiqiao, Zhou, Kun
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Nanostructured materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103204; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25834
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

For carbon nanotubes of sufficiently large diameter at sufficiently low temperature, due to the action of the van der Waals forces, the ground state is a bilayer graphene with closed edges, the so-called collapsed configuration. Molecular dynamics simulation of collapsed carbon nanotubes is performe...