Inna Ponomareva et al 2003 New J. Phys. 5 119 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/5/1/119
Formation pathways for single-wall carbon nanotube multiterminal junctions
Focus on Carbon NanotubesInna Ponomareva1, Leonid A Chernozatonskii1, Antonis N Andriotis2 and Madhu Menon3,4
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Using tight-binding as well as classical molecular dynamics we simulate the formation of single-wall carbon nanotube T-, Y- and X-junctions via the fusing of two nanotubes. We propose energetically efficient pathways for this process in which all atoms maintain their sp2 arrangements throughout. Recent experimental advances have greatly increased the plausibility of synthesizing multiterminal junctions as proposed in the simulations. We further report I–V characteristics of one of the junctions thus formed.
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71.15.Pd Molecular dynamics calculations (Car-Parrinello) and other numerical simulations
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Issue 1 (September 2003)
Received 23 June 2003
Published 30 September 2003
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Formation pathways for single-wall carbon nanotube multiterminal junctions
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