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JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 32, Issue 11, Pages 2397-2403Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.21821
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carbon nanotubes; graphene; density functional theory; free radicals; dipolar cycloadditions; periodic boundary conditions
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We have performed a comparative study on the reactivity of metallic and semiconducting nanotubes using infinite and finite models. Infinite models were created using periodic boundary conditions while finite ones were constructed by means of hydrogen terminated nanotubes sections. Cluster models systematically underestimate the reactivity of metallic single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT)s. We have confirmed that metallic nanotubes are more reactive than semiconducting species, in disagreement with previous works. The differences can be attributed to the presence of an instability in the singlet ground state of the wavefunction corresponding to semiconducting nanotubes clusters. When lower electronic states of the pristine cluster are considered, semiconducting nanotubes become less reactive as compared with metallic SWCNTs. Particularly, if an antiferromagnetic solution is considered for the semiconducting (10,0) SWCNT cluster, it becomes less reactive than the (5,5) SWCNT, as observed for infinite models. Because semiconducting nanotubes are less reactive than metallic counterparts, their reaction energies converge faster to the values observed for graphene. For a 1.6-nm diameter semiconducting nanotube, the addition energy is comparable with graphene. Thus, semiconducting nanotubes with diameters larger than 1.6 nm are going to be as reactive as graphene and the effects of curvature will be unimportant. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 32: 2397-2403, 2011
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