Biomedical subjects

VH Crespi

Publications and source records attributed to VH Crespi.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2000

Topological phases in graphitic cones

The electronic structure of graphitic cones exhibits distinctive topological features associated with the apical disclinations. Ahranov-Bohm magnetoconductance oscillations (period Phi(0)) are completely absent in rings fabricated from cones with a single pentagonal disclination. Close to the apex, the local density of states changes qualitatively, either developing a cusp which drops to zero at the Fermi energy, or forming a region of nonzero density across E(F), a local metallization of graphite.

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PubMed2000

Smoothest bearings: interlayer sliding in multiwalled carbon nanotubes

The well-defined geometry and extreme structural anisotropy of a multiwalled carbon nanotube can bring qualitatively new features to its nanometer-scale tribology. Efficient cancellation of registration-dependent interactions in incommensurate tubes (and also, surprisingly, certain axial commensurate tubes) can induce extremely small and nonextensive shear strengths.

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PubMed2000

Condensation of helium in nanotube bundles

Helium atoms are strongly attracted to the interstitial channels within a bundle of carbon nanotubes. The strong corrugation of the axial potential within a channel can produce a lattice gas system wherein the weak mutual attraction between atoms in neighboring channels induces a transition to an anisotropic condensed phase. At low temperatures, the specific heat of the adsorbate phase (with fewer than 2% of the atoms) greatly exceeds that of the host.

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PubMed2000

Gapping by squashing: metal-insulator and insulator-metal transitions in collapsed carbon nanotubes

Squashing brings circumferentially separated areas of a carbon nanotube into close proximity, drastically altering the low-energy electronic properties and (in some cases) reversing standard rules for metallic versus semiconducting behavior. Such a deformation mode, not requiring motion of tube ends, may be useful for devices. Uniaxial stress of a few kbar can reversibly collapse a small-radius tube, inducing a 0.1 eV gap with a very strong pressure dependence, while the collapsed state of a larger tube is stable. The low-energy electronic properties of chiral tubes are surprisingly insensitive to collapse.

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PubMed1996