Hiromichi Kataura - Kataura Plot

Kataura Plot

Kataura plot is a graph relating the energy of the band gaps in a carbon nanotube and its diameter. A nanotube of certain diameter can be metallic M or semiconducting S; it can have several band gaps, conventionally labeled as S₁₁, S₂₂, M₁₁, M₂₂, etc. This property results in multiple branches in the Kataura plot.

The original article on the Kataura plot has been reported in a lesser-known journal Synthetic Metals. Nevertheless, this article has been cited more than 1200 times in peer-reviewed scientific journals between 2000 and June 2013.