Atomic correlation between adjacent graphene layers in double-wall carbon nanotubes |
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Authors: | Hashimoto Ayako Suenaga Kazu Urita Koki Shimada Takashi Sugai Toshiki Bandow Shunji Shinohara Hisanori Iijima Sumio |
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Institution: | Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, 305-8565, Japan. hashimoto-aya@aist.go.jp |
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Abstract: | Atomic correlation between adjacent graphene layers was elucidated for double-wall carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) through a chiral index assignment of two nested nanotubes by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. Our analysis provides a rather constant diameter difference close to 0.75 nm but no chiral angle correlation between the constituent nanotubes in the concentric DWNTs. The local atomic correlation as a commensurate graphene stacking was repeatedly found in eccentric DWNTs and circumscribed nanotubes, which should lead to elastic deformation and bundling of nanotubes. |
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