Van der Waals interaction in nanotube bundles: consequences on vibrational modes
Physical Review B 60, 8521 - 8524 (1999)
Van der Waals interaction in nanotube bundles: consequences on vibrational modes
We have developed a pair-potential approach for the evaluation of van der Waals interaction between carbon nanotubes in bundles. Starting from a continuum model, we show that the intertube modes range from 5 cm-1 to 60 cm-1. Using a nonorthogonal tight-binding approximation for describing the covalent intratube bonding in addition, we confirm a slight chiral dependence of the breathing mode frequency and we found that this breathing mode frequency increases by ~10% if the nanotube lies inside a bundle as compared to inside the isolated tube.
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