The lines with almost vanishing values (filled circles) at the bottom are for the pristine case of no defects and for a single vacancy on the inner tube.
The stress for motion in the pristine case, entailing nucleation, is higher than the Peierls stress for motion when disconnections are present.
After geometric optimization process, the doped BNNTs present an important reduction on values of HOMO-LUMO gap versus pristine case, as well as these systems have high polarity and low chemical reactivity.
The presence of the hillock reduces the amplitude of the variation (also called corrugation) from 0.77 eV of the pristine case to about 0.53 eV for the case of the hillock.
Moreover, the predictions show a steady increase of delay of the reflected solitary waves with increasing void radius for a fixed void depth, approaching the pristine case (no void) at sufficiently small void sizes.
The most striking property of the skewness and the critical supercurrent, so far not unequivocally revealed, is the presence of a maximum value or a single singularity at the key point (the DSOI equates to half of the RSOI) in pristine case.
So while it might be too late for my formerly-pristine case, those who pick up production models via the Kickstarter page shouldn't have to worry about damage — though I'd still be careful with that clamp.
