Energetics of carbon peapods: Elliptical deformation of nanotubes and aggregation of encapsulated C60
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The energetics of large diameter carbon nanotubes encapsulating C60 molecules (peapods) have been studied by using the local density approximation in the density-functional theory (DFT). We find that the energy gain ascribed to the encapsulation of C60 increases under the elliptical deformation of the nanotubes compared to that for the nanotubes with circular cross section. The energy cost of the deformation of nanotubes is found to be less than 10 meV per atom and is found to be the largest for the (20,20) nanotube. We also explore the energetics of the aggregation of encapsulated C60 in the nanometer-scale space of the (10,10) nanotube. The total energy of the dimerized C60 encapsulated in the (10,10) nanotube is lower by 0.2 eV per atom than that of the isolated C60 indicating that the dimerization reaction is exothermic. The activation barrier for the dimerization of C60 is about 1.4 eV, so that the spontaneous dimerization of C60 is unlikely to take place without any external stimuli such as electron irradiation.
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