Shape transition of unstrained flattest single-walled carbon nanotubes under pressure

Mu, Weihua; Cao, Jianshu; Ou-Yang, Zhong-can

doi:10.1063/1.4863455

Title: Shape transition of unstrained flattest single-walled carbon nanotubes under pressure

Journal Article · Tue Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2014 · Journal of Applied Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4863455· OSTI ID:1383646

Mu, Weihua ^[1]; Cao, Jianshu ^[2]; Ou-Yang, Zhong-can ^[3]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Theoretical Physics, Kavli Inst. for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) (Singapore)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Inst. of Theoretical Physics, Kavli Inst. for Theoretical Physics; Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) (Singapore); Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)

Single walled carbon nanotube's (SWCNT's) cross section can be flattened under hydrostatic pressure. One example is the cross section of a single walled carbon nanotube successively deforms from the original round shape to oval shape, then to peanut-like shape. At the transition point of reversible deformation between convex shape and concave shape, the side wall of nanotube is flattest. This flattest tube has many attractive properties. In the present work, an approximate approach is developed to determine the equilibrium shape of this unstrained flattest tube and the curvature distribution of this tube. Our results are in good agreement with recent numerical results, and can be applied to the study of pressure controlled electric properties of single walled carbon nanotubes. The present method can also be used to study other deformed inorganic and organic tube-like structures.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Excitonics (CE)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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OSTI ID:: 1383646

Journal Information:: Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 115, Issue 4; Related Information: CE partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Brookhaven National Laboratory; Harvard University; ISSN 0021-8979

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