Electronic Contribution to the energetics of helically-wrapped nanotubes
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Wall, A.; Ferreira, M.S., Electronic Contribution to the energetics of helically-wrapped nanotubes, Physics Review B, 74, 23, 2006, 233401-233405Download Item:
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Motivated by evidence of helical wrapping of polymeric molecules around nanotubes, we calculate the
electronic contribution to the energetics of linear charge distributions around a nanoscale cylindrical structure.
This contribution alone leads to an angular dependence on the total energy, suggesting the occurrence of
preferential wrapping directions. We argue that this contribution may play a role in determining the wrapping
geometry of continuous linear charge distributions surrounding a nanotube.
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Author: FERREIRA, MAURO
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