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Carbon Nanostructures as an Electromechanical Bicontinuum

Materials Science 2009-11-13 v2 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

A two-field model provides an unifying framework for elasticity, lattice dynamics and electromechanical coupling in graphene and carbon nanotubes, describes optical phonons, nontrivial acoustic branches, strain-induced gap opening, gap-induced phonon softening, doping-induced deformations, and even the hexagonal graphenic Brillouin zone, and thus explains and extends a previously disparate accumulation of analytical and computational results.

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@article{arxiv.0704.1305,
  title  = {Carbon Nanostructures as an Electromechanical Bicontinuum},
  author = {Cristiano Nisoli and Paul E. Lammert and Eric Mockensturm and Vincent H. Crespi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1305},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages 2 figures. Version accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett