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Electron transport in carbon nanotube shuttles and telescopes. / Grace, I. M.; Bailey, S. W.; Lambert, Colin.
In: Physical review B, Vol. 70, No. 15, 153405, 2004.

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Grace IM, Bailey SW, Lambert C. Electron transport in carbon nanotube shuttles and telescopes. Physical review B. 2004;70(15):153405. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.153405

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title = "Electron transport in carbon nanotube shuttles and telescopes.",
abstract = "Using a scattering technique, combined with density-functional theory, a computational study of the electron-transport properties of multiwall carbon nanotube (MWNT) telescopes and shuttles is presented. When the inner nanotube of a MWNT is displaced by an amount δx with respect to the outer tube, we predict that the interwall π-π coupling, γπ-π , is significantly modified, leading to unexpected conductance oscillations for values of δx of the order of the interatomic spacing. An analytical model is presented, which provides a mapping between γπ-π and electron-transport measurements.",
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