Atomic resolution STM imaging of a twisted single-wall carbon nanotube

Details Atomic resolution STM imaging of a twisted single-wall carbon nanotube Atomic resolution STM imaging of a twisted single-wall carbon nanotube

1998-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9804175v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

preprint, 4 pages, and 4 gif figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.58.R4266

We present atomically-resolved STM images of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) embedded in a crystalline nanotube rope. Although they may be interpreted as of a chiral nanotube, the images are more consistently explained a an achiral armchair tube with a quenched twist distortion. The existence of quenched twists in SWNTs in ropes might explain the fact that both as-grown bulk nanotube material and individual ropes have insulator-like conductivity at low temperature.

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