Carbon nanotubes have promising applications in new technologies, but a practical control of their chirality is challenging. Here, Artyukhov et al.show that the chirality is determined by a trade-off between faster growth of chiral nanotubes and preference for achiral tubes during nucleation.
- Vasilii I. Artyukhov
- Evgeni S. Penev
- Boris I. Yakobson