Figure 4: Theoretical calculations.
From: Fluid dynamic lateral slicing of high tensile strength carbon nanotubes
(a) Initial bent structure of geometrical model of a nanotube showing the bending radius, R. and an arm-length, L, and nanotube diameter, D. (b,c) Snapshots of a (10, 0) nanotube model after annealing at 400 K and 3000 K respectively, with inset (d) showing a zoom-in of the defected sliced part of the nanotube. (e) Plot of the number of defects as a function of temperature for the (10, 0) nanotube with different bending radii. (f) Plot of the number of defects as a function of radius for the (10, 0) nanotube at a constant temperature of 3200 K. (g) Plot of number of defects at constant temperature as a function of diameter for different chiralities.
