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Simulations of nucleation of single‐walled carbon nanotubes
Author(s) -
Luo Chenglin,
Yu Hewu,
Zhang Yiquan,
Cai Linhui,
He Xiangdong
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
physica status solidi (a)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.532
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1862-6319
pISSN - 1862-6300
DOI - 10.1002/pssa.200622141
Subject(s) - carbon nanotube , nucleation , materials science , molecular dynamics , carbon fibers , chemical physics , nanotechnology , mechanism (biology) , thermodynamics , computational chemistry , chemistry , composite material , physics , composite number , quantum mechanics
A common nucleation and growth mechanism of single‐walled carbon nanotubes based on a vapour–liquid–solid model has been proposed according to molecular dynamics simulations and related experiments. This mechanism can explain many important experimental observations such as similarities between samples synthesized using different techniques, minimum and maximum radii of single‐walled carbon nanotubes and the fact that single‐walled carbon nanotubes can only grow within a certain temperature interval. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)