Nanoparticle manipulation by thermal gradient

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wei, Ning ^a   Wang, Hui Qiong ^a   Zheng, Jin Cheng ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Manipulation; Mass transport; Molecular dynamics simulation; Thermal gradient; Thermophoresis

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; FULLERENES; MASS TRANSFER; MICROMANIPULATORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES; THERMOPHORESIS;

DIRECT CONTACT; FULLERENE MOLECULES; MANIPULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANOMANIPULATIONS; NANOPARTICLE MANIPULATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL POTENTIAL; THERMOPHORETIC FORCE;

THERMAL GRADIENTS;

EID: 84863292241     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-154     Document Type: Article

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