Electron diffraction of an in situ strained double-walled carbon nanotube.

Brown, Joseph J; Muoth, Matthias; Hierold, Christofer; Bright, Victor M · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The strain-induced change in a carbon-nanotube diffraction pattern is found after applying strain, using a microelectromechanical tensile stage, to the outer shell of a double-walled carbon nanotube, while the inner shell provides an unstrained reference pattern. The nanotube is found to have chirality (63,21)@(65,32) with 16-20° tilt and strain up to 1% in the outer shell.