Resilience of nanotube-molecule-nanotube junctions to lattice defects

Csaba G. Péterfalvi and Colin Lambert

Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK

Phys. Rev. B 86, 085443 (2012)

See below the relaxed coordinates of the nanotube-molecule-nanotube junctions.
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Small anchor groups with few lattice defects. Click on the image for the interactive Jmol window.

Small anchor groups with many lattice defects. Click on the image for the interactive Jmol window.

Large anchor groups with few lattice defects. Click on the image for the interactive Jmol window.

Large anchor groups with many lattice defects. Click on the image for the interactive Jmol window.