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Non-uniform shrinkage of multiple-walled carbon nanotubes under in situ electron beam irradiation

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Instability of multiple-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) was investigated by in situ transmission electron microscopy at room temperature. Specially, the non-uniform shrinkage of tubes was found: The pristine MWCNT shrank preferentially in its axial direction from the most curved free cap end of the tube, but the shrinkage of the tube diameter was offset by the axial shrinkage: For the complex MWCNT, the two inner MWCNTs also preferentially axially shrank from their most curved cap ends and separated from each other. However, for the effect of the radial pressure from the out walls which enveloped the two inner tubes and the tube amorphization, the two inner tubes were extruded to come close to each other and finally touched again. The new “evaporation” and “diffusion” mechanisms of carbon atoms as driven by the nano-curvature of CNT and the electron beam-induced athermal activation were suggested to explain the above phenomena.

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This work was supported by the NSFC projects under Grant Nos. 61404052, 11574255, 60776007 and 11074207 and China Ministry of Education Special Scientific Research Fund for Doctor Discipline of Institution of Higher of Learning under Grant No. 20100121110023.

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  1. Brain Science Institute, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China

    Lunxiong Li

  2. China-Australia Joint Laboratory for Functional Nanomaterials and Physics Department, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China

    Lunxiong Li, Jiangbin Su & Xianfang Zhu

  3. School of Mathematics and Physics, Chang Zhou University, Changzhou, 213164, China

    Jiangbin Su

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-1076-1.

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Li, L., Su, J. & Zhu, X. Non-uniform shrinkage of multiple-walled carbon nanotubes under in situ electron beam irradiation. Appl. Phys. A 122, 912 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-016-0418-8

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