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Carbon Nanotubes pp 605–629Cite as

Single-Wall Carbon Nanohorns and Nanocones

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Part of the book series: Topics in Applied Physics ((TAP,volume 111))

Abstract

In addition to sheet structures with purely hexagonal carbon rings, whichnaturally form surfaces of zero Gaussian curvature such as sheets and tubes, agraphenic membrane can also assume a conical shape whose apex is defined by one ormore disclinations taking the form of fivefold (or possibly smaller) rings.Geometrically, just as a sheet of paper with a wedge removed can be resealed to forma conical hat, a graphene sheet with a wedge removed (i.e., a disclination) can beresealed, notionally, to form a cone or horn. The single-wall carbon nanohorns(SWNH) form one class of such conical structures, with a particularly sharp apicalangle, a well-characterized high-yield synthesis route, and a distinct aggregatemicrostructure. Conical graphenic structures with wider opening angles,corresponding to fewer pentagonal disclinations at the apex, also form, sometimes asmultilayered structures. The pentagonal defects in carbon nanocones perturb thelow-energy electronic structure both locally and globally, defining both a localregion of enhanced reactivity and a global geometric phase relation withprofound consequences for electron transport around the apex. The rapidvariation in local sheet orientation around the cone and the two-dimensionalnature of the electronic states within imply that uniform laboratory fields cangenerate highly nonuniform effective local fields for states in the cone.

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    Masako Yudasaka & Sumio Iijima

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    Masako Yudasaka & Sumio Iijima

  3. Department of Physics, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan

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  4. Departments of Physicsand Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, UniversityPark, USA

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  3. Department of Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139-4307, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Mildred S. Dresselhaus

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Yudasaka, M., Iijima, S., Crespi, V.H. (2007). Single-Wall Carbon Nanohorns and Nanocones. In: Jorio, A., Dresselhaus, G., Dresselhaus, M.S. (eds) Carbon Nanotubes. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72865-8_19

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