How Evaporating Carbon Nanotubes Retain Their Perfection?
- 16 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Nano Letters
- Vol. 7 (3) , 681-684
- https://doi.org/10.1021/nl0627543
Abstract
We present a mechanism of high-temperature sublimation of carbon nanotubes that does not destroy their ordered makeup even upon significant loss of mass. The atoms depart to the gas phase from the pentagon-heptagon dislocation cores, while the bond disruption is immediately repaired, and the 5|7 seamlessly propagate through the lattice. This explains a broad class of unsettled phenomena when at high temperature or under radiation the nanotubes do not become amorphous but rather shrink in size nearly flawlessly.Keywords
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