Research Article

Nanomechanics of Nonideal Single- and Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Figure 6

Measurement of the inter-tube van der Waals force component. The force components due to the van der Waals interaction are measured in between the atoms from adjacent facets of the SWCNTs in an array. This region is marked by the dashed rectangle. The interfacial spacing is at 3.4 Å along the 𝑥 axis.
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