Citation: Nataliya A. Sakharova, Jorge M. Antunes, Andre F. G. Pereira, Jose V. Fernandes. Developments in the evaluation of elastic properties of carbon nanotubes and their heterojunctions by numerical simulation[J]. AIMS Materials Science, 2017, 4(3): 706-737. doi: 10.3934/matersci.2017.3.706
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