Flexibility of nanotubes

Abstract

Experimental observations of static bending and flexural vibration modes in nanotubes are reviewed in the light of recent statements, linked to density functional theory simulations, that such modes do not exist. The evidence for flexural modes at wavelengths long compared with the diameter of the nanotube is overwhelming.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to C. Calladine, G. Csanyi, R. Haydock, A. Rubio and D. Sanchez-Portal for useful discussions.

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A. Howie †

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