The scattering theory for two crossing metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes of finite length exposed to an electromagnetic field has been developed based on a synthesis the quantum transport formalism and classical electrodynamics. model point contact be incorporated into Hall\'en Pocklington equations nanotubes. influence conductance position as well angle between tube axes polarizability a...

Ash&act-In an earlier paper the authors proposed a geometrical description of distortional plastic hardening. The parameters of this model describe, in turn, all the elements of transformation of the initial yield surface, namely proportional expansion, translation, affine deformation, rotation, and distortion. The present paper is devoted to evolution equations for individual parameters: after...

We report local density functional results that show that narrow nanotubes with optimized diameters between about 0.34 and 0.5 nm can be either semiconducting or metallic, but with electron structures near the Fermi level that often cannot be understood starting from the graphene sheet model, successful in the study of larger diameter tubes. Our total energy calculations indicate that narrow na...

We report results of diffusion Monte Carlo calculations for both 4 He absorbed in a narrow single walled carbon nanotube (R = 3.42Å) and strictly one dimensional 4 He. Inside the tube, the binding energy of liquid 4 He is approximately three times larger than on planar graphite. At low linear densities , 4 He in a nanotube is an experimental realization of a one-dimensional quantum fluid. Howev...

We study the tube size and bundling effects on Raman active breathing-like phonon modes (BLM) and tangential-like phonon mode (TLM) of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNT) in the framework of the bond polarization theory, and use the spectral moment’s method. The Raman active modes are calculated for different diameter and chirality of the inner and outer DWCNT tubes. The dependence of the Ra...

We report an experimental study on the confinement of oligothiophene derivatives into single-walled carbon nanotubes over a large range of diameter (from 0.68 to 1.93 nm). We evidence by means of Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy that the supramolecular organizations of the confined oligothiophenes depend on the nanocontainer size. The Raman Radial Breathing Mode frequency...

Diffusive-ballistic heat conduction of finite-length single-walled carbon nanotubes has been studied by means of non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The length-dependence of thermal conductivity is quantified for a range of nanotube-lengths up to a micrometer at room temperature. A gradual transition from nearly pure ballistic to diffusive-ballistic heat conduction was identified fr...

We have performed polarization-dependent ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy of a film of aligned single-walled carbon nanotube bundles. By taking into account imperfect nanotube alignment as well as anisotropic absorption cross sections, we quantitatively determined distinctly different photobleaching dynamics for polarizations parallel and perpendicular to the tube axis. For perpendicular polar...

A significant challenge exists in probing the transport behavior of chemically modified single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Thin films of SWNTs offer one facile approach to integration of these materials into electronics and sensing applications. Data on bulk resistivities of ‘bucky paper’ films created from HiPco SWNTs that were initially ozonized and subsequently decorated with CdTe quant...

In this work, treating an artery as a prestressed thin-walled elastic tube and the blood as an inviscid fluid, the interactions of two nonlinear waves propagating in opposite directions are studied in the longwave approximation by use of the extended PLK (Poincaré-Lighthill-Kuo) perturbation method. The results show that up to O(k3), where k is the wave number, the head-on collision of two soli...