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. 2022 Nov 22;12(52):33552–33558. doi: 10.1039/d2ra06123f

Calculated adsorption energies of H2O as a molecule, an OH/H pair and O/H/H atoms on the basal surfaces of three different configurations of 4 Å SWCNTs (unit: eV).

SWCNTs Molecular H2O OH/H O/H/H
Axial Diagonal Equatorial Axial Diagonal Equatorial
(3,3) −0.13 N/A −0.01 Tube break N/A 1.52 Tube break
(4,2) −0.16 N/A 1.71 N/A N/A 1.04 N/A
(5,0) −0.13 −0.43 −0.09 N/A 0.51 0.13 N/A