Molecular dynamics simulation of physical vapor deposition of metals onto a vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotube surface

Carbon

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2046-2052

  Inoue, Shuhei ^a   Matsumura, Yukihiko ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON CLUSTERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYNAMICS; FORMING; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); METALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RATE CONSTANTS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SURFACE STRUCTURE; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; VACUUM DEPOSITION; VAPORS;

BRENNER POTENTIALS; CLUSTERING; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; FLAT SURFACES; GOLD CLUSTERS; HIGH VACUUMS; LARGE CLUSTERS; METAL CLUSTERS; METAL INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANOTUBE SURFACES; NICKEL CLUSTERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; SMOOTH SURFACES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 54549097941     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2008.08.017     Document Type: Article

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