Molecular dynamics modeling and simulations of carbon nanotube-based gears

A molecular dynamics (MD) modeling method was applied to investigate the properties of carbon nanotube-based gears (CNT gears). The Brenner’s reactive hydrocarbon potential was used in order to calculate the short range interatomic forces. The Lennard-Jones 6-12 (LJ) was used to calculate the long r...

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Main Authors: Yeak Su Hoe, Che Lokman Jaafar, Ng, Teng Yong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5304/
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author Yeak Su Hoe,
Che Lokman Jaafar,
Ng, Teng Yong
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Ng, Teng Yong
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description A molecular dynamics (MD) modeling method was applied to investigate the properties of carbon nanotube-based gears (CNT gears). The Brenner’s reactive hydrocarbon potential was used in order to calculate the short range interatomic forces. The Lennard-Jones 6-12 (LJ) was used to calculate the long range van der Waals potential for intermolecular interactions between gears. One gear was powered by forcing the atoms near the end of the first CNT to rotate, and a second gear was allowed to rotate by keeping the atoms near the end of second CNT constrained to a cylinder. We used the hybrid minimization to simulate the CNT-gears by coupling the unconstraint conjugate gradient minimization with the one-dimensional minimization, Brent’s method. The hybrid minimization was successfully implemented by introducing two regions in CNT gear. The switch function will affect the smoothness of the gear rotation. The switch function also affects the minimization process where simulation time will be reduced.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:53042016-12-14T06:38:03Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5304/ Molecular dynamics modeling and simulations of carbon nanotube-based gears Yeak Su Hoe, Che Lokman Jaafar, Ng, Teng Yong A molecular dynamics (MD) modeling method was applied to investigate the properties of carbon nanotube-based gears (CNT gears). The Brenner’s reactive hydrocarbon potential was used in order to calculate the short range interatomic forces. The Lennard-Jones 6-12 (LJ) was used to calculate the long range van der Waals potential for intermolecular interactions between gears. One gear was powered by forcing the atoms near the end of the first CNT to rotate, and a second gear was allowed to rotate by keeping the atoms near the end of second CNT constrained to a cylinder. We used the hybrid minimization to simulate the CNT-gears by coupling the unconstraint conjugate gradient minimization with the one-dimensional minimization, Brent’s method. The hybrid minimization was successfully implemented by introducing two regions in CNT gear. The switch function will affect the smoothness of the gear rotation. The switch function also affects the minimization process where simulation time will be reduced. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5304/1/13%2520Yeak%2520Su%2520Hoe.pdf Yeak Su Hoe, and Che Lokman Jaafar, and Ng, Teng Yong (2012) Molecular dynamics modeling and simulations of carbon nanotube-based gears. Sains Malaysiana, 41 (7). pp. 901-906. ISSN 0126-6039 http://www.ukm.my/jsm/contents.html
spellingShingle Yeak Su Hoe,
Che Lokman Jaafar,
Ng, Teng Yong
Molecular dynamics modeling and simulations of carbon nanotube-based gears
title Molecular dynamics modeling and simulations of carbon nanotube-based gears
title_full Molecular dynamics modeling and simulations of carbon nanotube-based gears
title_fullStr Molecular dynamics modeling and simulations of carbon nanotube-based gears
title_full_unstemmed Molecular dynamics modeling and simulations of carbon nanotube-based gears
title_short Molecular dynamics modeling and simulations of carbon nanotube-based gears
title_sort molecular dynamics modeling and simulations of carbon nanotube-based gears
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5304/
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http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5304/1/13%2520Yeak%2520Su%2520Hoe.pdf