Reversible band-gap engineering in carbon nanotubes by radial deformation
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O. Gülseren, T. Yildirim, S. Ciraci, and Ç. Kılıç* NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Ankara 06533, Turkey ~Received 18 April 2001; revised manuscript received 11 December 2001; published 28 March 2002!
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