Abstract
A brittle bond-breaking carbon nanotube (CNT) failure mechanism, which generally competes with the extensively discussed Stone-Wales bond rotation dislocation path is presented. Remarkably, the proposed failure path dominates at low temperatures, and is more probable to take place in a tensile-test experiment. Thus, the failure mechanism involves a series of shallowenergy minima in the highly strained CNT lattice which can be associated with broken-bond states.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 9485-9488 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
Volume | 118 |
Issue number | 21 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1 2003 |