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Past exam of the MPhil in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise course of the University of Cambridge / 2020 / Paper 2 / Section A(i) / 13 / ii / Solution by

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For an armchair single-walled carbon nanotube,

∣ C_{h} ∣ = 3 bn

. Hence

d_{n} = \frac{0.426 n}{π} nm, \frac{π}{0.426} \leq n \leq \frac{1.7 π}{0.426} .

(1)

The integer bounds give $(n, m) = (8, 8), (9, 9), (10, 10), (11, 11), (12, 12)$ .

Table 1.

Armchair nanotube indices and atom-center diameters

Indices	Exact diameter in nm	Rounded diameter in nm
$(8, 8)$	$3.408/ π$	$1.08480$
$(9, 9)$	$3.834/ π$	$1.22040$
$(10, 10)$	$4.260/ π$	$1.35600$
$(11, 11)$	$4.686/ π$	$1.49160$
$(12, 12)$	$5.112/ π$	$1.62720$

The neighboring values

d_{7} ≃ 0.9492 nm

and

d_{13} ≃ 1.7628 nm

lie outside the interval. “Exact” here means exact within the stipulated cylindrical model and input bond length; the decimals are rounded. No van der Waals wall thickness is added because the diameter is measured between atomic centers.

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