On a Nanoscopically-Informed Shell Theory of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Details On a Nanoscopically-Informed Shell Theory of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes On a Nanoscopically-Informed Shell Theory of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

2011-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/1111.4574v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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This paper proposes a bottom-up sequence of modeling steps leading to a nanoscopically informed continuum, and as such macroscopic, theory of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). We provide a description of the geometry of the two most representative types of SWCNTs, armchair (A-) and zigzag (Z-), of their modules and of their elementary bond units. We believe ours to be the simplest shell theory that accounts accurately for the linearly elastic response of both A- and Z- CNTs. In fact, our theory can be shown to fit SWCNTs of whatever chirality; its main novel feature is perhaps the proposition of chirality-dependent concepts of effective thickness and effective radius.

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