Research Article

Properties of Reaction Intermediates from Unzipping Nanotubes via the Diketone Formation: A Computational Study

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(a) Cross-section of the hexagonal unit cell for the ( 5 , 5 ) nanotube in periodic boundary condition (PBC) calculations, given by blue hashed lines. (b) Side-view of the nanotube along the tube axis (the 𝑐 vector). Its supercell was given by blue-hashed lines.
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