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Morphological Similarities between Single-Walled Nanotubes and Tubelike Structures of Polymers with Strong Adsorption Affinity to Nanowires

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2015

Thomas Vogel ,
Tali Mutat ,
Joan Adler  and
Michael Bachmann
Thomas Vogel*
Affiliation:
Center for Simulational Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
Tali Mutat*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel
Joan Adler*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel
Michael Bachmann*
Affiliation:
Center for Simulational Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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Corresponding author.Email:[email protected]
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Abstract

In their tubelike phase, nanowire-adsorbed polymers exhibit strong structural similarities to morphologies known from single-walled carbon (hexagonal) and boron (triangular) nanotubes. Since boron/boron nitride tubes require some disorder for stability the triangular polymer tubes provide a closer analog to the carbon tubes. By means of computer simulations of both two and three dimensional versions of a coarse-grained bead-spring model for the polymers, we investigate their structural properties and make a detailed comparison with structures of carbon nanotubes.

Keywords

82B8082D6082D8082.35.Gh05.10.Ln61.48.DePolymers on surfacesMonte Carlo methodsstructure of carbon nanotubesboron nanotubes
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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 13 , Issue 5 , May 2013 , pp. 1245 - 1264
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2013

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