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It reports for the first time chiral penta-graphene nanotubes as thermal and dynamically stable. The structural prediction of chiral nanotubes of penta-graphene by means of DFT calculations, can be used as guide for experimentalists.
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Why is it important?
It opens the field of metaestable structures of carbon and it founds chiral nanotubes as insulators, which can be used in nanoelectronics.
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This page is a summary of: Chiral penta-graphene nanotubes: Structure, bonding and electronic properties, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, May 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2017.03.019.
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