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This article reviews the electronic properties of plain and doped nanotubes. The effect of doping on transport is then discussed. Novel transport properties are obtained for N-P doped nanotubes. It will be shown that N-P junctions of semiconducting zigzag tubes have a rectifying behavior whereas those of metallic armchair tubes have a negative differential resistance. These effects become more pronounced as the tube radius is reduced. Such interesting and novel properties may be used for designing new nanoscale devices. In a second part, mechanical properties of the tubes and the effect of defects on them will be discussed. This section will be illustrated by the results of molecular dynamics simulations.
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Esfarjani, K., Farajian, A.A., Hashi, Y., Kawazoe, Y. (2002). Electronic, Transport and Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes. In: Kawazoe, Y., Kondow, T., Ohno, K. (eds) Clusters and Nanomaterials. Springer Series in CLUSTER PHYSICS. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04812-2_8
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