In this work the conduction of ion-water solution through two discrete bundles of armchair carbon and silicon carbide nanotubes, as useful membranes for water desalination, is studied. In order that studies on different types of nanotubes be comparable, the chiral vectors of C and Si-C nanotubes are selected as (7,7) and (5,5), respectively, so that    a similar volume of fluid is investigated ...

Dielectrophoresis is an electronic analogue1,2 of optical tweezers3 based on the same physical principle: an ac electric field induces a dipole moment on an object in solution, which then experiences a force proportional to the gradient of the field intensity. For both types of tweezers, this force must compete with thermal Brownian4 motion to be effective, which becomes increasingly difficult ...

Radial solitons are investigated in armchair carbon nanotubes using a generalized Lennard-Jones potential. The radial solitons are found in terms of moving kink defects whose velocity obeys a dispersion relation. Effects of lattice discreteness on the shape of kink defects are examined by estimating the Peierls stress. Results suggest that the typical size for an unpinned kink phase is of the o...

Chirality-dependent van Hove singularities ~vHs! of the one-dimensional electronic density of states ~DOS! are discussed in connection with resonant Raman spectroscopy. The effect of trigonal warping on the energy dispersion relations near the Fermi energy splits the peaks of the density of states for metallic nanotubes, and the magnitude of this effect depends on the chiral angle of the carbon...

We characterized the energy band dispersion near the Fermi level in single-walled carbon nanotubes using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. Analysis of energy-dependent standing wave oscillations, which result from quantum interference of electrons resonantly scattered by defects, yields a linear energy dispersion near E(F), and indicates the importance of parity in scattering for a...

We report theoretical analysis of the electronic flexoelectric effect associated with nanostructures of sp(2) carbon (curved graphene). Through the density functional theory calculations, we establish the universality of the linear dependence of flexoelectric atomic dipole moments on local curvature in various carbon networks (carbon nanotubes, fullerenes with high and low symmetry, and nanocon...

The Wiener index of a graph Gis defined as W(G) =1/2[Sum(d(i,j)] over all pair of elements of V(G), where V (G) is the set of vertices of G and d(i, j) is the distance between vertices i and j. In this paper, we give an algorithm by GAP program that can be compute the Wiener index for any graph also we compute the Wiener index of HAC5C7[p, q] and HAC5C6C7[p, q] nanotubes by this program.

We report the one-electron spectrum and eigenstates of infinite achiral chiral $(2m,m)$ carbon nanotubes found by using analytic solution to Schr\"odinger equation for tight-binding H\"uckel-type Hamiltonian. With help matching wave functions on interfaces between regions, where electrons have different site energies, we find compare transmission coefficients zigzag, armchair subjected action a...