Issue 18, 1999

Interlayer interactions in graphite and carbon nanotubes

Abstract

A simple tight-binding plus dispersion model is developed to describe the stacking of graphite planes, and then applied to the study of multi-walled carbon nanotubes. According to this model, the variations in the interlayer interaction energy as two nested nanotubes are rotated and translated relative to one another will be far smaller than the variations in the interlayer energy between two sheets of graphite, and multi-walled nanotubes with inter-wall spacings greater than the typical 3.4 Å will tend to deform towards having polygonal cross sections. These predictions are discussed in the light of both earlier theoretical work and recent high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) images of nanotube cross sections.

Article information

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Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 1999,1, 4459-4464

Interlayer interactions in graphite and carbon nanotubes

A. H. R. Palser, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 1999, 1, 4459 DOI: 10.1039/A905154F

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