https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050216
Energetics of carbon nanotubes
Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University,
06531, Ankara, Turkey
Corresponding author: a erkoc@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr
Received:
30
March
1998
Accepted:
28
July
1998
Published online: 15 December 1998
We have investigated the energetics of carbon nanotubes. Calculations have been performed by using the empirical many-body potential energy function developed by Tersoff for carbon.
PACS: 61.48.+c – Fullerenes and fullerene-related materials / 61.46.+w – Clusters, nanoparticles, and nanocrystalline materials / 31.15.Ct – Semi-empirical and empiricalculations (differential overlap, Hückel, PPP methods, etc.)
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1998
