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Carbon nanotubes

Perfect mismatch

Nature Physics volume 10, pages 709–711 (2014)Cite this article

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The electronic coupling between two stacked atomic layers is usually weak if their periodicities are incommensurate. Optical absorption experiments have now revealed unexpectedly strong interlayer coupling in incommensurate double-walled carbon nanotubes.

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Figure 1: Graphene and carbon nanotubes.

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  1. João Lopes dos Santos is at Centro de Física do Porto and Departmento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, P4169-007 Porto, Portugal,

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