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100 amps of electricity crackle in a vacuum chamber, creating a spark that transforms carbon vapor into tiny structures. Depending on the conditions, these structures can be shaped like little, 60-atom soccer balls, or like rolled-up tubes of atoms, arranged in a chicken-wire pattern, with rounded ends. These tiny, carbon nanotubes, discovered by Sumio Iijima at NEC labs in 1991, have amazing properties. They are 100 times stronger than steel, but weigh only one-sixth as much. They are incredibly resilient under physical stress; even when kinked to a 120-degree angle, they will bounce back to their original form, undamaged. And they can carry electrical current at levels that would vaporize ordinary copper wires.

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  1. Carbon Nanotube Fracture

    Teaching Materials | 27 May 2021 | Contributor(s):: Christine M Aikens, George C. Schatz, Marcelo Carignano

    Due to their mechanical properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) hold promise as nanoreinforcements in a variety of composites. As a result, numerous theoretical and experimental studies have been performed in order to understand the behavior of CNTs under axial tension. Whereas quantum mechanical...

  2. Carbon Nanotube Worksheet

    Teaching Materials | 01 Apr 2021 | Contributor(s):: Tanya Faltens

    This worksheet is made to be used with the CNT Bands tool in nanoHUB.  (https://nanohub.org/tools/cntbands-ext) Students identify armchair, zig-zag and chiral CNTs based on CNT geometry. Students identify semiconducting and metallic CNTs based on their energy band diagrams.  ...

  3. Take the nanoHUB Carbon Nanotube Dance Challenge!

    Teaching Materials | 23 Jul 2018 | Contributor(s):: Tanya Faltens

    This teaching resource provides background information on Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs), as well as instructions for simulating different chirality CNTs and interpreting the results.

  4. Using nanoHUB to Introduce Elementary and Middle School Students to Models and Simulations

    Teaching Materials | 25 Mar 2014 | Contributor(s):: Tanya Faltens

    This is a combination hands-on and simulation activity that will teach middle school students about the function and importance of modeling and simulations in science and engineering while learning about three important carbon nanostructures: graphene, bucky balls, and carbon nanotubes. The...

  5. Carbon NanoTubes: Structure - Properties - Applications

    Teaching Materials | 19 Mar 2012 | Contributor(s):: Yuri A Kruglyak

    Presentation slides for seminar given for students of Faculty of Computer Sciences of Odessa State Environmental University, Ukraine by Prof. Yuri Kruglyak on May 22, 2008.

  6. Carrier Statistics Lab: First-Time User Guide

    Teaching Materials | 09 Mar 2009 | Contributor(s):: Abhijeet Paul, Gerhard Klimeck, Benjamin P Haley, Saumitra Raj Mehrotra

    This first-time user guide is an introduction to the Carrier Statistics Lab . It provides basic definitions, guidance on how to run the tool, and suggested exercises to help users get accustomed to the idea of distribution functions as well as how these functions are used in determining the...

  7. Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 5: A Day of In-Class Simulation: MD of Carbon Nanostructures

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    Teaching Materials | 13 Feb 2008 | Contributor(s):: Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

    In this lecture we carry out simulations in-class, with guidance from the instructors. We use the LAMMPS tool (within the nanoHUB simulation toolkit for this course). Examples include calculating the energy per atom of different fullerenes and nantubes, computing the Young's modulus of a nanotube...

  8. Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 4: Geometry Optimization and Seeing What You're Doing

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    Teaching Materials | 13 Feb 2008 | Contributor(s):: Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin

    In this lecture, we discuss various methods for finding the ground state structure of a given system by minimizing its energy. Derivative and non-derivative methods are discussed, as well as the importance of the starting guess and how to find or generate good initial structures. We also briefly...

  9. Resonant Tunneling Diodes: an Exercise

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    Teaching Materials | 06 Jan 2006 | Contributor(s):: H.-S. Philip Wong

    This homework assignment was created by H.-S. Philip Wong for EE 218 "Introduction to Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology" (Stanford University). It includes a couple of simple "warm up" exercises and two design problems, intended to teach students the electronic properties...