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SWNT nucleation: Energetics of zipping—edge mechanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Slava V. Rotkin
Slava V. Rotkin*
Affiliation:
Beckman Institute, UIUC, 405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, Ioffe Institute, 194021, St. Petersburg, Polytehnicheskaya 26, Russia
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Abstract

A novel mechanism of SWNT nucleation is considered in oppose to an existing model. The latter model based on the formation of a hemispherical carbon bowl nucleus has no correct description within the thermodynamics and kinetics of the nucleation process. The new mechanism can explain the prevalent formation of [10,10] armchair nanotube on the base of the continuum graphene energetics.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 675: Symposium W – Nanotubes, Fullerenes, Nanostructured and Disordered Carbon , 2001 , W2.9.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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