Difference between bending and stretching moduli of single-walled carbon nanotubes that are modeled as an elastic tube

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DiBiasio, Christopher M. [1 ]
Cullinan, Michael A. [1 ]
Culpepper, Martin L. [1 ]
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[1] MIT, Dept Mech Engn, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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10.1063/1.2741144
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The authors show that an elastic tube model of a (5,5) carbon nanotube predicts stretching and bending moduli that differ by 19%. This is due to (1) differing energy storage mechanisms in each mode and (2) the inability of the tube model to capture these effects. Conventional tube models assume a common energy storage mechanism in stretching and bending. They show that energy is stored primarily through bond stretching/rotation and bond torsion/van der Waals interactions in stretching and bending, respectively. This knowledge underscores the need to use different moduli to predict stretching, bending, and combined bending and stretching when using the tube model. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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