TY - JOUR
T1 - Zipper Mechanism of Nanotube Fusion
T2 - Theory and Experiment
AU - Yoon, Mina
AU - Han, Seungwu
AU - Kim, Gunn
AU - Lee, Sang Bong
AU - Berber, Savas
AU - Osawa, Eiji
AU - Ihm, Jisoon
AU - Terrones, Mauricio
AU - Banhart, Florian
AU - Charlier, Jean Christophe
AU - Grobert, Nicole
AU - Terrones, Humberto
AU - Ajayan, Pulickel M.
AU - Tománek, David
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - We propose a new microscopic mechanism to explain the unusually fast fusion process of carbon nanotubes. We identify the detailed pathway for two adjacent (5,5) nanotubes to gradually merge into a (10,10) tube, and characterize the transition states. The propagation of the fused region is energetically favorable and proceeds in a morphology reminiscent of a Y junction via a zipper mechanism, involving only Stone-Wales bond rearrangements with low activation barriers. The zipper mechanism of fusion is supported by a time series of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy observations.
AB - We propose a new microscopic mechanism to explain the unusually fast fusion process of carbon nanotubes. We identify the detailed pathway for two adjacent (5,5) nanotubes to gradually merge into a (10,10) tube, and characterize the transition states. The propagation of the fused region is energetically favorable and proceeds in a morphology reminiscent of a Y junction via a zipper mechanism, involving only Stone-Wales bond rearrangements with low activation barriers. The zipper mechanism of fusion is supported by a time series of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy observations.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.075504
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.075504
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:9644254806
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 92
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 7
ER -