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Title: Thermally induced local failures in quasi-one-dimensional systems: collapse in carbon nanotubes, neckling in nanowires, bubbles in DNA

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
OSTI ID:971286

Quasi one dimensional systems can suffer local structural failures-broadly defined-along their length: for instance, carbon nanotubes can collapse, nanowires can show bottlenecks below which conductance drops, bubbles open in DNA. We present a formalism to explore the occurrence of those thermally activated failures in complete generality, to calculate the average length between them as a function of the thermodynamic observables.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
971286
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-09-06399; LA-UR-09-6399; PRLTAO; TRN: US201004%%48
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English