Crystal Chemistry of Nanotubes Lattices |
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| Authors: | John E Fischer Agnes Claye Roland S Lee |
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| Institution: | Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , PA , 19104 , USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract X-ray diffraction profiles of pristine and hypothetical “intercalated” crystalline bundles of single-wall carbon nanotubes are computed and compared with experiment. The pristine case is complicated by finite size effects, tube diameter dispersion and the cylindrical form factor for uncorrelated tube rotations. Experimental profiles of “doped” samples are not in agreement with simulations based on 2-D ordered sublattices except at very low doping levels. |
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| Keywords: | nanotubes diffraction intercalation doping |
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