Morphological Similarities between Single-walled Nanotubes and Tubelike   Structures of Polymers with Strong Adsorption Affinity to Nanowires
  In their tubelike phase, nanowire-adsorbed polymers exhibit strong structural similarities to morphologies known from single-walled carbon (hexagonal) and boron (triangular) nanotubes. Since boron/boron nitride tubes require some disorder for stability the triangular polymer tubes provide a closer analog to the carbon tubes. By means of computer simulations of both two and three dimensional versions of a coarse-grained bead-spring model for the polymers, we investigate their structural properties and make a detailed comparison with structures of carbon nanotubes. 
Thomas Vogel, Tali Mutat, Joan Adler, and Michael Bachmann
cond-mat.soft cond-mat.mes-hall