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Carbon Nanotubes in Arrays: Competition of van-der-Waals and Elastic Forces

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The van-der-Waals interaction between carbon nanotubes leads to the formation of agglomerates of bundles and strands. In such a self-assemblage, identical nanotubes are assembled into arrays with a high degree of ordering forming a crystalline structure. However, the van-der-Waals forces also result in a strain of the cross-section normal to their axes instead of only in the mutual attraction of nanotubes. This work presents an analysis of the nanotube strain and crystal-lattice parameters depending on the nanotube sizes and crystal symmetry.

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  1. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 110001, Moscow, Russia

    V. V. Smirnov & L. I. Manevitch

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Smirnov, V.V., Manevitch, L.I. Carbon Nanotubes in Arrays: Competition of van-der-Waals and Elastic Forces. Dokl. Phys. 64, 218–221 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028335819050070

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