CALCULATED DEPENDENCE OF VIBRATIONAL BAND FREQUENCIES OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES ON DIAMETER
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2008
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Ohio State University
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We have used density functional theory (DFT) at the B3LYP/6-31G level to calculate Raman and IR spectra of the fourteen zigzag (n,0) single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) that have n ranging from 6 to 19. In the low frequency RBM region, calculated Raman spectra indicated that there are three vibrational modes, of symmetries A$_{1g}$, E$_{1g}$ and E$_{2g}$, whose frequencies depend strongly on nanotube diameter such as; $\omega_{RBM}(A_{1g})$ = 12.04 (cm${-1}$ + 221.4(cm$^-1$.nm)/ d$_t$(nm) and $\omega_{BD}(E_{1g})$ = 51.9(cm$^-1$ + 136.8(cm$^{-1}$.nm)/d$_t$(nm); there are also two IR spectral modes (of A$_{2u}$ and E$_{1u}$ symmetries) found in calculated IR spectra with strong diameter dependencies; $\omega_{RW}$(A$_{2u}$) = 10.4 (cm$^{-1}$ + 192.3(cm$^{-1}$.nm)/d$_t$(nm) and $\omega_{CW}$(E$_{1u}$) = 35.2(cm$^{-1}$ + 283.7(cm$^{-1}$.nm)/d$_t$(nm). These diameter dependencies are found to agree with empirical linear fits, where such fits have been made. We have also found three Raman bands with E$_{1g}$, A$_{1g}$ and E$_{2g}$ symmetries to exist in the G-band region. For this latter case, computed spectra indicated that the frequency of the A$_{1g}$ symmetry mode is not expected to vary much with nanotube diameter, but the frequencies of the E$_{1g}$ and E$_{2g}$ modes are expected to converge towards one another with increasing tube diameter. Furthermore, These calculations suggest that the curvature energy (or folding energy) of the SWCNT, in gas phase, rapidly decreases and stabilizes with increasing size of the SWCNT; a solid curve is a fit to the calculated energies using a functional form that depends inversely on nanotube diameter, dE$_n,6$ = E$_n,0$ - E$_6,0$ = -1.55 (eV) - 0.16(eV.nm)/d$_t$(nm) + 0.44(eV.nm)/d$_t^2$(nm). The calculated full natural bond orbital analysis (NBO) indicates that three of the four valence electrons of the carbon atoms in SWCNTs are sp$^2$-hybridized in the one-dimensional (1D) network, with ~34\% s and ~66\% p$_xy$ character, and the forth electron is ~ 100\% p$_z$ in character. As expected, each carbon atom contributes three electrons to the sigma bonds within the surface of the CNT and has one electron left in the p$_z$ orbitals that is delocalized over the entire surface.
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Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, faculty of Art and Sciences, Ondokuz Mayis; University, 55139, Samsun, Turkey; Center for Analysis of Structures and Interfaces (CASI) Department of Chemistry The City; College of The City University of New York New York, New York 10031