A fluid-physics approach for determining the strength of the coupling between a multiwalled carbon nanotube and a liquid metal contact

We propose a novel fluid-physics formulation to calculate the strength of the coupling between a multiwalled carbon nanotube and a reservoir represented by a liquid-metal contact. Typically, this liquid metal can be mercury or gallium so that the molecules of these two metals are diatomic in liquid state allowing to treat the molecules in question as Morse oscillators whose quantum energy levels are the starting point for evaluating the tube–metal contact coupling.