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The structure of a new non-carbon (beryllium oxide BeO) nanotube consisting of a rolled-up graphene sheet is proposed, and its physical properties are described. Ab initio calculations of the binding energy, the electronic band structure, the density of states, the dependence of the strain energy of the nanotube on the nanotube diameter D, and the Young’s modulus Y for BeO nanotubes of different diameters are performed in the framework of the density functional theory (DFT). From a comparison of the binding energies calculated for BeO nanotubes and crystalline BeO with a wurtzite structure, it is inferred that BeO nanotubes can be synthesized by a plasma-chemical reaction or through chemical vapor deposition. It is established that BeO nanotubes are polar dielectrics with a band gap of ∼5.0 eV and a stiffness comparable to that of the carbon nanotubes (the Young’s modulus of the BeO nanotubes Y BeO is approximately equal to 0.7Y C, where Y C is the Young’s modulus of the carbon nanotubes). It is shown that, for a nanotube diameter D > 1 nm, the (n, n) armchair nanotubes are energetically more favorable than the (n, 0) zigzag nanotubes.
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Original Russian Text © P.B. Sorokin, A.S. Fedorov, and L.A. Chernozatonskiĭ, 2006, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2006, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 373–376.
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Sorokin, P.B., Fedorov, A.S. & Chernozatonskiĭ, L.A. Structure and properties of BeO nanotubes. Phys. Solid State 48, 398–401 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106378340602034X
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