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Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2020 Volume 111, Issue 7, Pages 469–474 (Mi jetpl6145)

CONDENSED MATTER

Study of a new type of crimped-shape nanotubes cut from bilayer graphene with the Moiré angle $\Theta=27.8^\circ$

V. A. Demina, A. A. Artyukha, V. A. Sarokabc, L. A. Chernozatonskiia

a Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119334 Russia
b Center for Quantum Spintronics, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO-7491 Norway
c Institute for Nuclear Problems, Belarusian State University, Minsk, 220030 Belarus

Abstract: New quasi-one-dimensional hollow nanostructures similar to flattened nanotubes are numerically simulated. These nanostructures can be obtained by connecting the edges of nanoribbons cut out of twisted bilayer graphene with the Moiré angle $\Theta=27.8^\circ$. The resulting nanotubes are non-chiral and contain chains of topological defects at the connected edges. A detailed description of their structure is given, and their energy stability is also demonstrated. The electronic characteristics of such structures and their evolution in the course of deformation are determined using ab initio methods. All nanotubes under study are metallic, except the structure with a width of $14$ Å, characterized by the band gap $E_g = 0.2$ eV. It is shown that the electronic and elastic characteristics of such nanotubes differ significantly from those of nanoribbons forming them and of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Received: 05.03.2020
Revised: 05.03.2020
Accepted: 05.03.2020

DOI: 10.31857/S0370274X20070085


 English version:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2020, 111:7, 397–402

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