caa a22 4500 463233352 CHVBK 20180405153249.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10853-006-0701-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10853-006-0701-8 Mechanical interaction between single-walled carbon nanotubes during the formation of a bundle [Elektronische Daten] [Tania Vodenitcharova, Kausala Mylvaganam, Liang Zhang] This paper investigates the intertubular van der Waals interactions that produce the initial cross sectional distortion of single-walled carbon nanotubes during a bundle formation. By combining the analysis of molecular dynamics with the continuum mechanics, the distributions of the van der Waals forces were determined. The dependence of the load parameters, deformation variables and the lattice constant on the nanotube radius, was also investigated. It was found that the van der Waals forces are attractive and vary circumferentially in a harmonic manner. For the considered zigzag nanotubes of radius 7-14Å, the intensity of the van der Waals forces is radius-dependent and can be as large as 6-11GPa in the channels of the bundle and 1-5GPa at the closest points between the single-walled nanotubes. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Vodenitcharova Tania School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Mylvaganam Kausala School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Zhang Liang School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut Journal of Materials Science Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/13(2007-07-01), 4935-4941 0022-2461 42:13<4935 2007 42 10853 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-006-0701-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-006-0701-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vodenitcharova Tania School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mylvaganam Kausala School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhang Liang School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, 2006, Sydney, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Materials Science Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/13(2007-07-01), 4935-4941 0022-2461 42:13<4935 2007 42 10853 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer