Unzipping carbon nanotubes into nanoribbons upon oxidation : a first-principles study

First-principles calculations are performed to investigate the unzipping mechanism of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into narrow graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) upon oxidation. By treating possible adsorptive structures, we found that, upon further oxidation, epoxy pairs tear the CNT up with an initial energy...

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Main Authors: Li, Feng, Kan, Erjun, Lu, Ruifeng, Xiao, Chuanyun, Deng, Kaiming, Su, Haibin
Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97446
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10746
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English