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Mechanics at nanometer scale involves physical factors often entirely different from the familiar concepts in macroscopic mechanical engineering (elastic moduli, contact forces, friction etc.). These new features are often of chemical nature: intermolecular forces, thermal fluctuations, chemical bonds. The general aspects and issues of nanomechanics are illustrated by an overview of the properties of nanotubes: linear elastic parameters, nonlinear elastic instabilities and buckling, inelastic relaxation, yield strength and fracture mechanisms, and their kinetic theory. Atomistic scenarios of coalescence-welding and the role of non- covalent forces (supra-molecular interactions) between the nanotubes are also discussed due to their significance in potential applications. A discussion of theoretical and computational work is supplemented by brief summaries of experimental results, for the entire range of the deformation amplitudes.

Editor’s note: Nanomechanics is an area of nanoscale mechanics studying mechanical phenomena, mechanical material properties, mechanical and electro-mechanical behavior of nanoscale material systems and nanostructures of 100 nm or less in size.

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Notes

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    Editor’s notes: B. Yakobson and his colleagues were among the first to perform theoretical modeling of carbon nanotubes, i.e.,

    1993/94—R.S. Ruoff and J. Tersoff team at IBM has done first theoretical modeling of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube crystals.

    1996—M.M.J. Treacy, T.W. Ebbesen and J.M. Gibson have carried out first experimental testing of carbon nanotubes with the atomic force microscope (AFM).

    1996—B.I. Yakobson, C.J. Brabec and J. Bernholc have performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of the axial buckling and twisting of carbon nanotubes. They have shown the shell-like behavior of carbon nanotubes.

    1997—C.M. Lieber and his team at Harvard University have done similar experimental testing of vibrating carbon nanotubes.

  2. 2.

    Editor’s notes in words of Leonardo da Vinci [about his notes on science]: “… I believe that before I am at the end of this I shall have to repeat [some of] the same things; and therefore, O reader, blame me not, because the subjects are many…” and it is important to encourage the reader.

  3. 3.

    Editor’s notes: “Movement is created by heat and cold.” Leonardo da Vinci, Philosophy, p. 79, in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (edited by E. MacCurdy, Konecky and Konecky printing, Duckworth and Co., London, 1906).

  4. 4.

    Editor’s notes: “Therefore O students study mathematics and do not build without foundations.” Leonardo da Vinci, Philosophy, p. 82, in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (edited by E. MacCurdy, Konecky and Konecky printing, Duckworth and Co., London, 1906).

  5. 5.

    Editor’s notes: “He who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and will never impose silence upon the contradictions of the sophistical sciences, which occasion a perpetual clamor.” Leonardo da Vinci, Philosophy, p. 83, in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (edited by E. MacCurdy, Konecky and Konecky printing, Duckworth and Co., London, 1906). .

  6. 6.

    Editor’s notes: “Let no one read me who is not mathematician in my beginnings.” Leonardo da Vinci, Philosophy, p. 85, in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (edited by E. MacCurdy, Konecky and Konecky printing, Duckworth and Co., London, 1906).

  7. 7.

    Editor’s notes: “Inequality is the cause of all local movements.” Leonardo da Vinci, Aphorisms, p. 89, in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (edited by E. MacCurdy, Konecky and Konecky printing, Duckworth and Co., London, 1906).

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Yakobson, B.I., Dumitrică, T. (2014). Retracted: Nanomechanics: Physics Between Engineering and Chemistry. In: Harik, V. (eds) Trends in Nanoscale Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9263-9_4

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