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Prismatic modifications of single-walled carbon nanotubes and their electronic properties: Regular adsorption of fluorine atoms on graphene surfaces of nanotubes

O. B. Tomilin^a, I. V. Stankevich^b, E. E. Muryumin^a, S. A. Lesin^a, N. P. Syrkina<sup>a

a</sup> Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk
^b A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The regular adsorption of fluorine atoms on surfaces of single-walled carbon nanotubes along their axes can lead to a modification of cylindrical carbon cores of these single-walled carbon nanotubes to carbon cores that have a nearly prismatic shape (prismatic modification). In faces of these modified single-walled carbon nanotubes, there can arise quasi-one-dimensional isolated carbon conjugated subsystems (tracks) with different structures. It has been established that the main characteristics of the single-walled carbon nanotubes thus modified are rather close to the corresponding characteristics of the related isostructural polymer conjugated systems (such as cis-polyenes, polyphenylenes, poly(periacenes), or polyphenantrenes). Fragments of model nanotubes of the $(n, n)$ and $(n, 0)$ types that contain up to 360 carbon atoms and their derivatives doped with fluorine atoms have been calculated using the semiempirical parametric method 3.

Received: 08.02.2010
Accepted: 01.06.2010

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2011, 53:1, 201–208

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