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Silicon behaves like metal when formed into nanotubes.(Materials Science/R & D)

Advanced Materials & Processes, May, 2004

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When silicon is shaped into tubes less than 1 nm in diameter, it may behave like a metal, reports University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prof. Xiao Cheng Zeng and his team modeled nanotubes in hexagonal, pentagonal, and square configurations on the university's powerful supercomputer (PrairieFire).

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They found the thinnest known nanotube has a square configuration with a diameter of less than 0.5 nm. The researchers then used a quantum mechanical method to analyze the tubes and found that they are very likely to be conductors. In other words, they appear not to have the ...

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Manufacturing Industry

Silicon behaves like metal when formed into nanotubes.(Materials Science/R & D)

Advanced Materials & Processes, May, 2004

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