Morphological Similarities between Single-walled Nanotubes and Tubelike Structures of Polymers with Strong Adsorption Affinity to Nanowires
arXiv:1105.5350 · doi:10.4208/cicp.131211.230412a
Abstract
In their tubelike phase, nanowire-adsorbed polymers exhibit strong structural similarities to morphologies known from single-walled carbon (hexagonal) and boron (triangular) nanotubes. Since boron/boron nitride tubes require some disorder for stability the triangular polymer tubes provide a closer analog to the carbon tubes. By means of computer simulations of both two and three dimensional versions of a coarse-grained bead-spring model for the polymers, we investigate their structural properties and make a detailed comparison with structures of carbon nanotubes.
20 pages, 9 figures, 2 table
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