Pressure effects on bond lengths and shape of zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes

Details Pressure effects on bond lengths and shape of zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes Pressure effects on bond lengths and shape of zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes

2008-12-31

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0067v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

pages 21, figures 7 and references 34. In press in Computational Material Science (2008)

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We investigate structural parameters, i.e., bond lengths and bond angles of isolated uncapped zigzag single-wall nanotubes in detail. The bond lengths and bond angles are determined for several radii tubes by using a theoretical procedure based on the helical and rotational symmetry for atom coordinates generation, coupled with Tersoff potential for interaction energy calculations. Results show that the structure of zigzag tubes is governed by two bond lengths. One bond length is found to have a value equal to that of graphite, while the other one is larger. Furthermore, the tube length is found to have significant effect only on larger bond length in zigzag tubes. With the application of the pressure, only the larger bond length compresses, the other one remaining practically constant. At some critical pressure, this bond length becomes equal to constant bond length. This behavior of bond lengths is different from those of armchair tubes. An analysis regarding the cross sectional shape has also been done. At some higher pressure, transition from circular to oval cross section takes place. This transition pressure is found to be equal 2.06GPa for (20,0) tube. Some comparison with chiral tubes has also been made and important differences on bond length behavior have been observed.

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