As the scaling technology in the silicon-based semiconductor industry is approaching
physical limits, it is necessary to search for proper materials to be utilized as alternatives for …

The successive discoveries of fullerenes1 and carbon nanotubes2 (CNTs) around 1990
triggered a hot wave of scientific research to explore the properties and applications of these …

This book is written and organized around three topics: electron diffraction, electron optics,
and electron crystallography. It is intended as an advanced undergraduateor graduate-level …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) emerge as a promising material to advance
carbon nanoelectronics. However, synthesizing or assembling pure metallic/semiconducting …

Despite three decades of intense research efforts, the most fundamental question “why do
carbon nanotubes grow?” remains unanswered. In fact, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) should …

We present classical molecular dynamics simulations demonstrating that single-wall carbon
nanotube (SWNT) bundles collapse under hydrostatic pressure. The collapse pressures …

Explicit formulas are derived for the van der Waals (vdW) interaction between any two layers
of a multi-walled carbon nanotube (CNT). Based on the derived formulas, an efficient …

We have constructed semiempirical equations of state of Al, Au, Cu, Pt, Ta, and W, which
within experimental error bars describe the available shock-wave, ultrasonic, x-ray, and …

We studied the adsorption of single atoms on a semiconducting and metallic single-wall
carbon nanotube from first principles for a large number of foreign atoms. The stable …

Unusual physical properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes have started a search for
similar tubular structures of other elements. In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis of …