Prediction of thermal expansion properties of carbon nanotubes using molecular dynamics simulations

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 249-254

  Alamusi, ^a   Hu, Ning ^a,b   Jia, Bi ^b   Arai, Masahiro ^c   Yan, Cheng ^d   Li, Jinhua ^a   Liu, Yaolu ^a   Atobe, Satoshi ^e   Fukunaga, Hisao ^e  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Molecular dynamics; Thermal property

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; AVERAGE VALUES; COEFFICIENTS OF THERMAL EXPANSIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE RANGE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THERMAL EXPANSION PROPERTIES; THERMAL PROPERTY; TWO PARAMETER;

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 83155191109     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

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