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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 90, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2535874
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Long carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have many important applications. However, long CNTs may self-fold and therefore compromise their applications. The authors have determined the critical length for self-folding as 4 pi root EI/gamma, where EI and gamma are the CNT bending stiffness and binding energy, respectively. This simple expression has been verified by atomistic simulations. For single-wall CNTs, the critical self-folding length ranges from a few hundred nanometers to about 2 mu m. For multiwall CNTs, the critical length increases rapidly with the number of walls and exceeds 10 mu m for a 14-wall CNT. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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