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The recent discovery of various stoichiometries of B x C y N z nanotubes provides an interesting application for the formalism covered in the previous chapters. A nanotube can be described as a long thin strip, cut out of a single atomic plane of material, rolled to form a cylinder with a diameter of nanometer scale and a length on the order of microns. This chapter will discuss the discovery of tubes of various layered materials, give a theoretical formulation of the cylindrical nanostructures, show some experimental work done on the mechanical behavior of carbon tubes and provide possible applications of this material in the future.
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Chopra, N.G., Zettl, A. (1997). A New Direction: Nanotubes. In: Ferrari, M., Granik, V.T., Imam, A., Nadeau, J.C. (eds) Advances in Doublet Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49636-6_10
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