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2.4 Electronic Structure

The energy dispersion relations of SW-CNTs can be calculated using zone folding [18,29], the tight-binding method[30], and density functional theory [31,32]. In the simplest method the energy dispersion relations of CNTs are obtained by folding those of graphene.
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