Coarse-grained potentials of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 197-218

  Zhao, Junhua ^a,b   Jiang, Jin Wu ^b   Wang, Lifeng ^c   Guo, Wanlin ^c   Rabczuk, Timon ^b  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube buckypaper; Carbon nanotubebundles; Carbon nanotubes; Coarse grained potentials; Molecular mechanics

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE BUCKYPAPER; COARSE-GRAINED POTENTIAL; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS CALCULATION; NANOMECHANICAL DEVICE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS); STATIC AND DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS; CARBON NANOTUBE BUNDLE;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84908363331     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2014.06.011     Document Type: Article

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