《Containerless solidification of Zr41Ti14Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 glass-forming alloy in drop tube》.pdfVIP

NOTES hooked form by moving the tip along ‘oe’ as illustrated in fig. 6(b, c). The shape and dimension of the hook may provide useful information for estimating the radius of the Containerless solidification of tip. Similar results are obtained in repeated experiments , which shows that this method is feasible and reliable. Zr41Ti14Cu12.5Ni10Be22.5 glass- 2 Conclusions In this note, we have studied the technique for ma- forming alloy in drop tube nipulating carbon nanotubes and the interactions among LI Gong1,2, SUN Liling 2,3 WANG Wenkui1,2 the nanotube, manipulation tools and substrates. Results show some interesting phenomena. Carbon nanotubes 1. College of Material Sciences and Engineering, Yanshan University, produced by CVD are likely to be moved, bent or distort- Qinhuangdao 066004, China; 2. Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese ed by moving the tip of AFM across the tube, but the Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; adhesive force and pinning forces between nanotubes and 3. National Microgravity Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, substrates are very strong. Therefore, the manipulating Beijing 100080, China forces may cause a combined bending-torsional deforma- Correspondence should be addressed to Li Gong (e-mail :503g@aphy. iphy.ac.cn) tion on the nanotube. If the crystal lattice of the carbon nanotube is not intact, it can be cut into two parts by the Abstract