Nucleation of Carbon Nanotubes without Pentagonal Rings
- 30 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (9), 1791-1794
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.1791
Abstract
We describe a new mechanism for the nucleation of carbon nanotubes which does not require an abrupt transition from pentagonal ring formation to exclusively hexagon formation. This mechanism, the spontaneous opening of double-layered graphitic patches, is quantitatively consistent with the recently discovered temperature dependence of the nanotube diameter.Keywords
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