Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-11-10
Computational Materials Science 53 (2012), pp. 67-74
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
16 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.commatsci.2011.09.002
Interwall interaction energies, as well as barriers to relative sliding of the walls along the nanotube axis, are first calculated for pairs of both armchair or both zigzag adjacent walls of carbon nanotubes with a wide range of radiuses. It is found that for the pairs with the radius of the outer wall greater than 5 nm both the interwall interaction energy and barriers to the relative sliding per one atom of the outer wall only slightly depends on the wall radius. A wide set of the measurable physical quantities determined by these barriers are estimated as a function of the wall radius: shear strengths and diffusion coefficients for relative sliding of the walls along the axis, as well as frequencies of relative axial oscillations of the walls. For nonreversible telescopic extension of the walls, maximum overlap of the walls for which threshold static friction forces are greater than capillary forces is estimated. Possibility of experimental verification of the calculated barriers by measurements of the estimated physical quantities is discussed.
Krivorotov Evgenii K.
Lozovik Yurii E.
Popov Andrey M.
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