Rolling up a graphene sheet into a carbon nanotube

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Carbon nanotubes can be thought of as rolled up graphene sheets. The green arrow is called the chiral vector and determines how the sheet is rolled up into a tube. Depending on the choice of chiral vector, different nanotube structures are created.

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