Smoothest bearings: interlayer sliding in multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Aleksey N. Kolmogorov; Vincent H. Crespi

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4727

Smoothest bearings: interlayer sliding in multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Aleksey N. Kolmogorov, Vincent H. Crespi

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A study is carried out to demonstrate that the tightly constrained geometry of a multiwalled nanotube can produce an extremely smooth solid-solid interface. As samples, three representative defect-free two-walled carbon nanotubes are considered.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4727-4730
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	85
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4727
State	Published - Nov 27 2000

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