▪ Abstract This account reviews the discovery, synthesis, properties, and the latest research
advances of carbon nanotubes developed over the past 12 years. Because of their …

Carbon nanotubes were discovered soon after the successful laboratory synthesis of
fullerenes. Since their discovery in 1991, there has been intensive research activity in the …

A second-generation potential energy function for solid carbon and hydrocarbon molecules
that is based on an empirical bond order formalism is presented. This potential allows for …

Carbon nanotubes subject to large deformations reversibly switch into different
morphological patterns. Each shape change corresponds to an abrupt release of energy …

We estimate the stiffness of single-walled carbon nanotubes by observing their freestanding
room-temperature vibrations in a transmission electron microscope. The nanotube …

Elastic properties of carbon nanotubes and nanoropes are investigated using an empirical
force-constant model. For single and multiwall nanotubes the elastic moduli are shown to be …

We present a comparative study of the energetic, structural, and elastic properties of carbon
and composite single-wall nanotubes, including BN, BC 3, and BC 2 N nanotubes, using a …

A broad review of the unusual one-dimensional properties of phonons in carbon nanotubes
is presented, including phonons in isolated nanotubes and in crystalline arrays of nanotubes …

The Young's modulus of graphene is investigated through the intrinsic thermal vibration in
graphene which is “observed” by molecular dynamics and the results agree very well with …

A study based on ab initio calculations is presented on the structural, elastic, and vibrational
properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes with different radii and chiralities. These …