Electronic and transport properties of nanotubes

JC Charlier, X Blase, S Roche - Reviews of modern physics, 2007 - APS
This article reviews the electronic and transport properties of carbon nanotubes. The focus is
mainly theoretical, but when appropriate the relation with experimental results is mentioned …

Charge transport in disordered graphene-based low dimensional materials

A Cresti, N Nemec, B Biel, G Niebler, F Triozon… - Nano Research, 2008 - Springer
Two-dimensional graphene, carbon nanotubes, and graphene nanoribbons represent a
novel class of low dimensional materials that could serve as building blocks for future …

A universal curve for the magnetocaloric effect: an analysis based on scaling relations

V Franco, A Conde, JM Romero-Enrique… - Journal of Physics …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The universal character of the recent experimentally found master curve for the magnetic
entropy change, ΔS M, in studies of the magnetocaloric response of materials is analytically …

Ballistic transport in graphene nanostrips in the presence of disorder: Importance of edge effects

DA Areshkin, D Gunlycke, CT White - Nano letters, 2007 - ACS Publications
Stimulated by recent advances in isolating graphene and similarities to single-wall carbon
nanotubes, simulations were performed to assess the effects of static disorder on the …

Quantum conductance of graphene nanoribbons with edge defects

TC Li, SP Lu - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2008 - APS
The conductance of metallic graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with single defects and weak
disorder at their edges is investigated in a tight-binding model. We find that a single edge …

Advances and applications in the FIREBALL ab initio tight‐binding molecular‐dynamics formalism

JP Lewis, P Jelínek, J Ortega, AA Demkov… - … status solidi (b), 2011 - Wiley Online Library
One of the outstanding advancements in electronic‐structure density‐functional methods is
the Sankey–Niklewski (SN) approach [Sankey and Niklewski, Phys. Rev. B 40, 3979 (1989)]; …

Electron knock-on cross section of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes

A Zobelli, A Gloter, CP Ewels, G Seifert, C Colliex - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
We present a theoretical description of electron irradiation of single-walled carbon and
boron nitride nanotubes. In a first step, the anisotropy of the atomic emission energy …

Self-limited embedding alternating 585-ringed divacancies and metal atoms into graphene nanoribbons

Z Wang, R Yin, J Meng, J Wang, Y Liang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Because of their theoretically predicted intriguing properties, it is interesting to embed
periodic 585-ringed divacancies into graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), but it remains a great …

Transport properties of graphene containing structural defects

A Lherbier, SMM Dubois, X Declerck, YM Niquet… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
We propose an extensive report on the simulation of electronic transport in two-dimensional
graphene in presence of structural defects. Amongst the large variety of such defects in sp 2 …

Boron-nitride and boron-carbonitride nanotubes: synthesis, characterization and theory

R Arenal, X Blase, A Loiseau - Advances in Physics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
We present in this review a joint experimental and theoretical overview of the synthesis
techniques and properties of boron-nitride (BN) and boron-carbonitride (BCN) nanotubes …