Ding, Feng and Jiao, Kun and Lin, Yu and Yakobson, Boris I. (2007) How evaporating carbon nanotubes retain their perfection? NANO LETTERS, 7 (3). pp. 681-684.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl0627543
Abstract
We present a mechanism of high-temperature sublimation of carbon nanotubes that does not destroy their ordered makeup even upon significant loss of mass. The atoms depart to the gas phase from the pentagon-heptagon dislocation cores, while the bond disruption is immediately repaired, and the 5 parallel to 7 seamlessly propagate through the lattice. This explains a broad class of unsettled phenomena when at high temperature or under radiation the nanotubes do not become amorphous but rather shrink in size nearly flawlessly.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Physical Science > Nano objects Material Science > Nanostructured materials Material Science > Nanochemistry |
| ID Code: | 3221 |
| Deposited By: | Anuj Seth |
| Deposited On: | 14 Jan 2009 14:28 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jan 2009 16:00 |
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