TY - JOUR T1 - Morphological Similarities Between Single-Walled Nanotubes and Tubelike Structures of Polymers with Strong Adsorption Affinity to Nanowires JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 5 SP - 1245 EP - 1264 PY - 2013 DA - 2013/05 SN - 13 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.131211.230412a UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7273.html KW - AB -

In their tubelike phase, nanowire-adsorbed polymers exhibit strong structural similarities to morphologies known from single-walled carbon (hexagonal) and boron (triangular) nanotubes. Since boron/boron nitride tubes require some disorder for stability the triangular polymer tubes provide a closer analog to the carbon tubes. By means of computer simulations of both two and three dimensional versions of a coarse-grained bead-spring model for the polymers, we investigate their structural properties and make a detailed comparison with structures of carbon nanotubes.