{
  "id": "1111.4574",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2011-11-19T18:15:23.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-11-19T18:15:23.000Z",
  "title": "On a Nanoscopically-Informed Shell Theory of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes",
  "authors": [
    "Chandrajit Bajaj",
    "Antonino Favata",
    "Paolo Podio-Guidugli"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "math-ph",
    "math.MP"
  ],
  "abstract": "This paper proposes a bottom-up sequence of modeling steps leading to a nanoscopically informed continuum, and as such macroscopic, theory of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). We provide a description of the geometry of the two most representative types of SWCNTs, armchair (A-) and zigzag (Z-), of their modules and of their elementary bond units. We believe ours to be the simplest shell theory that accounts accurately for the linearly elastic response of both A- and Z- CNTs. In fact, our theory can be shown to fit SWCNTs of whatever chirality; its main novel feature is perhaps the proposition of chirality-dependent concepts of effective thickness and effective radius.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2011-11-19T18:15:23.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "single-wall carbon nanotubes",
      "nanoscopically-informed shell theory",
      "main novel feature",
      "simplest shell theory",
      "elementary bond units"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2011arXiv1111.4574B"
    }
  }
}