Nanomechanics of Individual Carbon Nanotubes from Pyrolytically Grown Arrays

Ruiping Gao,1,4 Zhong L. Wang,1,* Zhigang Bai,1 Walter A. de Heer,2 Liming Dai,3 and Mei Gao3 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245 2School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430 3CSIRO Molecular Science, Private Bag 10, Clayton South MDC, Clayton 3169, Australia 4University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China (Received 7 February 2000)