Spiral motion of carbon atoms and C₆₀ fullerenes inside single-walled carbon nanotubes

DOI10.1504/IJTAMM.2009.029219MaRDI QIDQ373758zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jim Hill, Yue Chan, Ngamta Thamwattana

Publication date 25 October 2013

Published in International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Multiscale Mechanics (IJTAMM) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtamm.2009.029219

zbMATH Keywords

C\(_{60}\) fullerenescentrifugal forcescontinuous approachgigahertz nano-oscillatornanotechnologysingle-walled carbon nanotubesspiral motionthermal fluctuationsvan der Waals forces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Molecular, statistical, and kinetic theories in solid mechanics (74A25) Micromechanical theories (74A60) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21)

Review text

Summary: In this paper, we investigate the motion of a carbon atom and a C\(_{60}\) fullerene inside a carbon nanotube. The pairwise molecular energy between molecules arising from the van der Waals forces is approximated by performing surface integrals. In the absence of any thermal fluctuations, the carbon atom or the C\(_{60}\) molecule will oscillate in an axial direction inside the carbon nanotube. However, any thermal fluctuations will tend to induce a spiral-like motion of the atom or the C\(_{60}\) molecule. Our results also indicate that the thermal fluctuations reduce the general oscillatory frequency for the C\(_{60}\) molecule inside the nanotube due to the energy dissipation during the unstable spiral motion.

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