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Exceptionally high Young's modulus observed for individual carbon nanotubes

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Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +14

Nanobeam Mechanics: Elasticity, Strength, and Toughness of Nanorods and Nanotubes

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Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +17

Nanomechanics of Carbon Tubes: Instabilities beyond Linear Response

Boris I. Yakobson, C. J. Brabec, J. Bernholc · Physical Review Letters · 1996 · 2.6K citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +17

Structural rigidity and low frequency vibrational modes of long carbon tubules

G. Overney, Wenyu Zhong, David Tománek · Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms Molecules and Clusters · 1993 · 363 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Science, Physics +14