The determination of mechanical properties of nanoscale structures is becoming increasingly important as micro-system and ultra-large-scale integrated circuit technologies continue to mature. Traditional experimental ...
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The determination of mechanical properties of nanoscale structures is becoming increasingly important as micro-system and ultra-large-scale integrated circuit technologies continue to mature. Traditional experimental methods cannot avoid the influence on the hardness measurement from the presence of the substrate. Numerical computation method of finite-element modelling with molecular dynamics simulation is used to determine the mechanical properties of copper thin film from indentation, quantifying the difference between load against displacement-into-surface curves obtained from different length scale. The results show that the materials deformation exhibits strong size dependence when the relevant physical length scales fall into the range of microns or below. The P-H graph justifies that the permanent plastic deformation quickly decreased while the elastic deformation gradually increased in the range of nanometre level which means increasing of material microhardness. The different deformation behaviour of crystal layers inside the films may be the potential key factor of its breaking off from the substrate. There is little anisotropy phenomenon in the elastic deformation stage whereas there is obvious anisotropy phenomenon in the plastic deformation process. The anisotropy of thin film has strict preferred orientation distribution and symmetry. The anisotropy deformation gradually minimised accompanying the increasing of plastic deformation illuminates the copper thin film is a nonlinear anisotropy elastic-plastic material.
The crystalline structure of titanium dioxide (TiO2) is very much related to its properties. The sol-gel process and CO2 laser annealing instead of conventional furnace annealing have been performed to investigate the...
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The crystalline structure of titanium dioxide (TiO2) is very much related to its properties. The sol-gel process and CO2 laser annealing instead of conventional furnace annealing have been performed to investigate the crystalline TiO2 formation. The sol-gel solution was mixed by tetraisopropyl orthotitanate (TTIP), acetonylacetone, distilled water and alcohol at various molar ratios and spin-coated on the p-Si(100) substrate. Then the CO2 laser annealing in air at powers of 0.5, 1.5 and 3.0 Win the defocus mode was performed on the coatings for studying the crystallisation of titanium oxide. The microstructure and phase transformation of titanium dioxide were examined by X-ray diffraction pattern. Increasing TTIP concentration and decreasing laser power were favourable for anatase phase formation. The grain size of titanium dioxide calculated using Scherrer's formula was between 10 and 32 nm, which increased with increasing laser power. The ANSYS simulation was employed to calculate the temperature distribution of films to correlate with the phase transformation of titanium dioxide. This sol-gel processing combined with CO2 laser annealing had advantages of low cost, controllable titanium dioxide phase, selective area annealing and easy operating at room temperature.
The melting and axial compression of one (5, 5) single-walled boron nitride (BN) nanotube, as well as the (5, 5) BN tube embedded in one (10, 10) carbon nanotube, were simulated by molecular dynamics method. According...
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The melting and axial compression of one (5, 5) single-walled boron nitride (BN) nanotube, as well as the (5, 5) BN tube embedded in one (10, 10) carbon nanotube, were simulated by molecular dynamics method. According to the calculated results, their differences in thermal-stability and compressive properties were discussed. It is shown that (i) the single-walled BN nanotube melts at about 4600 K, and the BN tube restricted in the carbon tube basically holds its configuration even at the high temperature of 5000 K;(ii) the restricted BN tube has much better anti-compression capability than the single-walled BN nanotube.
A nanocapsule is investigated for methane storage purposes. The nanocapsule is a 'bucky shuttle' (or a nanopeapod) with a hole in its structure. The bucky shuttle has a diameter of a nanotube (10, 10) and is 1...
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A nanocapsule is investigated for methane storage purposes. The nanocapsule is a 'bucky shuttle' (or a nanopeapod) with a hole in its structure. The bucky shuttle has a diameter of a nanotube (10, 10) and is 180 A in length. A K@C-60(1+) endohedral complex is encapsulated into the nanocapsule. simulations are performed by a molecular dynamics method. The internal dynamics of the system are investigated - the nanocapsule, the K@C-60(1+) endohedral complex and methane molecules. The closing of the nanocapsule can be induced by the K@C-60(1+) ion transition as a result of applying an electric field. There is no need to keep the electric field at the storage stage, because the K@C-60(1+) ion cannot overcome the hole area owing to the effect of forces created in the hole of the nanocapsule. The opening of the nanocapsule takes place under the heating of the system. It is shown that this is a temperature-sensitive nanocapsule for methane molecule storage under zero external pressure and a temperature of 300 K. The nanocapsule retains 71 methane molecules (3.06 mass%) and releases gas at 350 K.
In this letter we extend previously established results for nested carbon nanocones to both nested boron nitride and carbon-boron nitride nanocones. Based purely on mechanical principles and classical mathematical mod...
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In this letter we extend previously established results for nested carbon nanocones to both nested boron nitride and carbon-boron nitride nanocones. Based purely on mechanical principles and classical mathematical modelling techniques, we determine the energetically favourable structures for nested boron nitride and carbon-boron nitride nanocones. While only three apex angles for boron nitride tend to occur, we also consider the other two angles corresponding to the equivalent carbon nanocones. Two nanocones are assumed to be located co-axially in a vacuum environment. The Lennard-Jones parameters for boron nitride and carbon-boron nitride systems are calculated using the standard mixing rule. For the boron nitride cones, numerical results indicate that the interspacing between two cones is approximately 3.4 angstrom which is comparable with the experimental results. For the hybrid carbon-boron nitride cones, the numerical results essentially depend on the outer cone angle, and the interspacing distance is also obtained to be approximately 3.4 angstrom. Moreover, the equilibrium position is such that one cone is always inside the other, and therefore nested double-cones are possible in practice.
The notion of nanotransport or nanomotion is presently a theoretical concept only, in that no one has actually observed the phenomena in an experimental context. For example, the oscillatory motion of one carbon nanot...
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The notion of nanotransport or nanomotion is presently a theoretical concept only, in that no one has actually observed the phenomena in an experimental context. For example, the oscillatory motion of one carbon nanotube sliding inside another is predicted on the basis of molecular dynamics studies, and the authors have provided some elementary modelling of the phenonmena. More recently, the authors have modelled a C-60 fullerene orbiting inside a nanotori. The related problem of a carbon nanotorus-nanosector oscillator or orbiter is examined, in which a small sector of a nanotorus orbits inside a second seamless nanotorus of larger radius. Using elementary mechanical principles and applied mathematical modelling techniques, we determine the equilibrium configuration for a number of carbon nanotorus-nanosector oscillators and subsequently investigate their operating frequencies. In line with carbon nanotube oscillators, the proposed analysis predicts orbiting frequencies in the gigahertz range.
Let e be an edge of a graph, G, connecting the vertices u and v. Define two sets N-1(e vertical bar G) and N-2( e vertical bar G) as N-1( e vertical bar G) {x is an element of V( G)vertical bar d(x, u), d(x, v)} and N...
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Let e be an edge of a graph, G, connecting the vertices u and v. Define two sets N-1(e vertical bar G) and N-2( e vertical bar G) as N-1( e vertical bar G) {x is an element of V( G)vertical bar d(x, u), d(x, v)} and N-2( e vertical bar G) {x is an element of V(G)vertical bar d(x, v), < d(x, u)}. The number of elements of N-1(e vertical bar G) and N-2(e vertical bar G) are denoted by n(1)(e vertical bar G) and n(2)(e vertical bar G), respectively. The Szeged index of the graph G is defined as Sz(G) = Sigma(e is an element of E(G))n(1)(e vertical bar G) n(2)(e vertical bar G). In this Letter, the Szeged index of third and fourth dendrimer nanostars is computed.
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