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Many-Body Terms in van der Waals Cohesion Energy of Nanotubes

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We have developed a model for the calculation of van der Waals force for layered systems with axial symmetry. Our result can be applied to compute the cohesion of a carbon nanotube to a substrate, the cohesion between nanotubes, and between shells of multiwall nanotubes. We have obtained unusal power laws for the distance dependence of the many-body van der Waals potential.

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  1. Beckman Institute, UIUC, 405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Slava V. Rotkin & Karl Hess

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Rotkin, S.V., Hess, K. Many-Body Terms in van der Waals Cohesion Energy of Nanotubes. Journal of Computational Electronics 1, 323–326 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020779020417

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