The goal of this article is to provide an updated and in-depth review of some of the most
exciting and important developments in the processing and properties of carbon nanotubes …

▪ Abstract We review the recent progress in our understanding of the mechanical and
electrical properties of carbon nanotubes, emphasizing the theoretical aspects. Nanotubes …

Recent experiments on irradiated carbon nanotubes provide evidence that ion
bombardment gives rise to nanotube amorphization and dramatic dimensional changes …

Using an atomic force microscope we have created nanotube junctions such as buckles and
crossings within individual single-wall metallic carbon nanotubes connected to metallic …

We investigate, through first-principles calculations, lattice instabilities induced in diamond
by the application of high shear stresses. For shear stresses as low as 95 GPa a lattice …

SIESTA was developed as an approach to compute the electronic properties and perform
atomistic simulations of complex materials from first principles. Very large systems, with an …

Electronic structure of boron-nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) can be tuned in a wide range
through covalent functionalization, as experimentally and theoretically evidenced. Various …

We apply first-principles calculations to study the structure and the relative stability of several
stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric boron nitride fullerenes of sizes ranging from 28 to 128 …

Recent experimental studies and atomistic simulations have shown that carbon nanotubes
(CNTs) display strong interplay between the mechanical deformation and electrical …

We consider a Fröhlich-type Hamiltonian on a hexagonal lattice. Aiming to describe
nanotubes, we choose this two-dimensional lattice to be periodic and to have a large …