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Deformation mechanisms for carbon and boron nitride nanotubes

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Molecular dynamics simulation in the density functional tight-binding approximation is used to assess the energetics and atomic mechanisms of the bending and twisting of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes.

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Original Russian Text © A.N. Enyashin, A.L. Ivanovskii, 2006, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2006, Vol. 42, No. 12, pp. 1464–1469.

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Enyashin, A.N., Ivanovskii, A.L. Deformation mechanisms for carbon and boron nitride nanotubes. Inorg Mater 42, 1336–1341 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168506120090

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