Smoothest Bearings: Interlayer Sliding in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
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- 27 November 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 85 (22) , 4727-4730
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.85.4727
Abstract
The well-defined geometry and extreme structural anisotropy of a multiwalled carbon nanotube can bring qualitatively new features to its nanometer-scale tribology. Efficient cancellation of registration-dependent interactions in incommensurate tubes (and also, surprisingly, certain axial commensurate tubes) can induce extremely small and nonextensive shear strengths.Keywords
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