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Buckling characteristics of multiwalled carbon nanotubes under external pressure

  • Sato, Motohiro (Department of Socio-Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University) ;
  • Shima, Hiroyuki (Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University)
  • Received : 2009.05.14
  • Accepted : 2009.05.23
  • Published : 2009.06.25
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Abstract

This article describes recent work on mechanics of carbon nanotubes, one of the most fundamental and amazing man-made nanostructures. The noteworthy point is that "nano"-scale mechanics of carbon nanotubes can be well described by the continuum elastic theories for "macro"-scale thin shells. This provides an efficient means to elucidate mechanical deformation effects of carbon nanotubes on their physical and chemical properties, which is significant to develop new-generation nanomaterials based on nanotubes and their composites. Potential applications of the mechanical deformation of nanotubes in nano-electronics and nano-biology are also commented. In addition, theoretical investigations regarding external pressure buckling is carried out here and we have numerically confirmed that larger N (the number of layers) and a smaller D (the innermost diameter) make "corrugation modes" with a larger mode-index k be energetically favored.

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