Collapse of double-walled carbon nanotube bundles under hydrostatic pressure

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Vikram Gadagkar,¹ Prabal K. Maiti,² Yves Lansac,³ A. Jagota,⁴ and A. K. Sood¹
¹Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
²Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
³LEMA, UMR 6157 CNRS-CEA, Université François Rabelais, 37200 Tours, France
⁴Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, USA

Received 28 September 2005; revised 28 November 2005; published 2 February 2006

Weuse classical molecular dynamics simulations to study the collapse ofsingle (SWNT) and double-walled (DWNT) carbon nanotube bundles under hydrostaticpressure. The collapse pressure (p_c) varies as 1/R³, where Ris the SWNT radius or the DWNT effective radius. Thebundles show ~30% hysteresis and the hexagonally close packed latticeis completely restored on decompression. The p_c of DWNT isfound to be close to the sum of its valuesfor the inner and the outer tubes considered separately asSWNT, demonstrating that the inner tube supports the outer tubeand that the effective bending stiffness of DWNT, D_DWNT~2D_SWNT. Weuse an elastica formulation to derive the scaling and thecollapse behavior of DWNT and multiwalled carbon nanotubes.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.085402
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevB.73.085402
PACS:	81.07.De; 02.70.Ns; 62.20.Dc; 62.50.+p 81.07.De Nanotubes: fabrication and characterization 02.70.Ns Molecular dynamics and particle methods 62.20.Dc Elasticity, elastic constants 62.50.+p High-pressure and shock wave effects in solids and liquids YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS:	carbon nanotubes, molecular dynamics method, bending, elasticity, hysteresis

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