Fullerenes and atomic clusters

Structure amplitude of a carbon nanotube

S. S. Savinskii

Udmurt State University, Izhevsk

Abstract: The diffraction pattern of atomic systems with cylindrical symmetry, such as polymers and liquid crystals, represents a set of diffuse spots located on layer lines. The carbon nanotube has cylindrical symmetry, and, correspondingly, its diffraction pattern exhibits properties of similar systems (polymers and liquid crystals). A theoretical analysis of the structure amplitude of a single-walled carbon nanotube has been performed.

Received: 10.03.2009
Accepted: 03.06.2009

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2010, 52:1, 216–219

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