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Atomic resolution STM imaging of a twisted single-wall carbon nanotube

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 نشر من قبل Alan T. \"Charlie\" Johnson
 تاريخ النشر 1998
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We present atomically-resolved STM images of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) embedded in a crystalline nanotube rope. Although they may be interpreted as of a chiral nanotube, the images are more consistently explained a an achiral armchair tube with a quenched twist distortion. The existence of quenched twists in SWNTs in ropes might explain the fact that both as-grown bulk nanotube material and individual ropes have insulator-like conductivity at low temperature.



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