  In their tubelike phase, nanowire-adsorbed polymers exhibit strong structural
similarities to morphologies known from single-walled carbon (hexagonal) and
boron (triangular) nanotubes. Since boron/boron nitride tubes require some
disorder for stability the triangular polymer tubes provide a closer analog to
the carbon tubes. By means of computer simulations of both two and three
dimensional versions of a coarse-grained bead-spring model for the polymers, we
investigate their structural properties and make a detailed comparison with
structures of carbon nanotubes.
