Data di Pubblicazione:
2016
Citazione:
Multiwalled nanotube faceting unravelled / I. Leven, R. Guerra, A. Vanossi, E. Tosatti, O. Hod. - In: NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 1748-3387. - 11:12(2016), pp. 1082-1086. [10.1038/nnano.2016.151]
Abstract:
Nanotubes show great promise for miniaturizing advanced technologies. Their exceptional physical properties are intimately related to their morphological and crystal structure. Circumferential faceting of multiwalled nanotubes reinforces their mechanical strength and alters their tribological and electronic properties. Here, the nature of this important phenomenon is fully rationalized in terms of interlayer registry patterns. Regardless of the nanotube identity (that is, diameter, chirality, chemical composition), faceting requires the matching of the chiral angles of adjacent layers. Above a critical diameter that corresponds well with experimental results, achiral multiwalled nanotubes display evenly spaced extended axial facets whose number equals the interlayer difference in circumferential unit cells. Elongated helical facets, commonly observed in experiment, appear in nanotubes that exhibit small interlayer chiral angle mismatch. When the wall chiralities are uncorrelated, faceting is suppressed and outer layer corrugation, which is induced by the Moiré superlattice, is obtained in agreement with experiments. Finally, we offer an explanation for the higher incidence of faceting in multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes with respect to their carbon-based counterparts.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Bioengineering; Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Biomedical Engineering; Materials Science (all); Condensed Matter Physics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Elenco autori:
I. Leven, R. Guerra, A. Vanossi, E. Tosatti, O. Hod
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