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The mechanical properties of a three-terminal nanotube “bough” junction are described. Interatomic Tersoff-Brenner potential and intermolecular Lennard-Jones potential were used to obtain the strain energy of the “bough” junction upon loading the “branch”. At small strain, the energy increases quadratically with the strain and the “branch” reverts to its initial position without external force. For strains higher than the critical one, the junction falls to a metastable state “branch stuck to stem”.
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BELOVA, E., CHERNOZATONSKII, L.A. (2006). MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THREE-TERMINAL NANOTUBE JUNCTION DETERMINED FROM COMPUTER SIMULATIONS. In: Popov, V.N., Lambin, P. (eds) Carbon Nanotubes. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 222. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4574-3_35
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