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The structure of single-wall carbon nanotube Y junctions of symmetry D 3h containing topological defects in the form of six heptagons or three octagons located immediately in the junction region of each pair of nanotubes forming the Y junctions is investigated, and their classification is suggested. It is shown that the pairs of heptagons in a Y junction formed by nanotubes of the “zigzag” type can be arranged in two ways and can be transformed into one another by using the (6, 7, 7, 6) ⇄ (7, 6, 7, 6) Stone-Wales transformation and that the octagon and pairs of heptagons in a Y junction formed by nanotubes of the “armchair” type can be transformed into one another by introducing or removing a C2 cluster. A method for constructing such Y junctions is suggested.
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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 46, No. 8, 2004, pp. 1529–1534.
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Lisenkov, S.V., Ponomareva, I.V. & Chernozatonskii, L.A. Basic configuration of a single-wall carbon nanotube Y junction of D 3h symmetry: Structure and classification. Phys. Solid State 46, 1577–1582 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1788798
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