ZHANG Yingji YANG Jinqing WEI Yongqin. Bundles and radical deformation of carbon nanotubes produced by irradiation[J]. Nuclear techniques, 1998, (4).DOI:
Bundles and radical deformation of carbon nanotubes produced by irradiation
were irradiated by 20MeV protons. By observing the irradiated samples with high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
nanotube bundles were discovered. TheTEM image of three adjacent nanotubes jointed together shows that Van der Waals forces among adjacent nanotubes can deform them substantially