Carbon nanostructures as an electromechanical bicontinuum.
A two-field model provides a unifying framework for elasticity, lattice dynamics and electromechanical coupling in graphene and carbon nanotubes, describes optical phonons, nontrivial acoustic branches, strain-induced gap opening, gap-induced phonon softening, doping-induced deformations, and even the hexagonal graphenic Brillouin zone, and thus explains and extends a previously disparate accumulation of analytical and computational results.
Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300, USA.
Cristiano
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Nisoli
Paul E
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Lammert
Eric
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Mockensturm
Vincent H
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Crespi