Thermal stability of idealized folded carbyne loops

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Cranford, Steven W ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Carbyne; Curvature; Molecular dynamics; Stability; Torsion; Unfolding

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADHESIVES; CARBON; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TORSIONAL STRESS;

ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; CARBON ALLOTROPES; CARBYNES; CURVATURE; FOLDED STRUCTURES; MOLECULAR SCALE; RING STRUCTURES; UNFOLDING;

STABILITY;

EID: 84891413915     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-490     Document Type: Article

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