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Computer Modeling of Electronic Properties of Scroll-like V2O5-based Nanotubes

Materials Science 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Atomic models of quasi-one-dimensional 1D vanadium oxide nanostructures - nanotubes of various morphology (cylinder or scroll-like) formed by rolling (010) single layers of V2O5 are constructed and their electronic properties are studied using the tight-binding band theory. Compared to the cylindrical zigzag (n,0) and armchair (n,n)-like nanotubes, which are uniformly semi-conducting with the bang gap of about 2.5-2.7 eV, the band gap of the scroll-like tubes trends significantly to vanish (up to about 0.1 eV) depending on the atomic configurations of the tubes and inter-wall distances.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0309179,
  title  = {Computer Modeling of Electronic Properties of Scroll-like V2O5-based Nanotubes},
  author = {A. N. Enyashin and V. V. Ivanovskaya and Yu. N. Makurin and A. L. Ivanovskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0309179},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures