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The study on diffusion behaviors of water molecules within carbon nanocoils by molecular dynamics simulation

In this study, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations was employed to investigate (5,5), (10,10) single-walled nanocoils and (5,5)@(10,10) double-walled carbon nanocoils. The study can be arranged into two parts¡G
In part I:
Investigate the mechanical properties of (5,5), (10,10) single-walled nanocoils and (5,5)@(10,10) double-walled carbon nanocoils. The second reactive empirical bond order (REBO) potential was employed to model the interaction between carbon
atoms. The contours of atomic slip vector and sequential slip vector were used to investigate the structural variations at different strains during the tension process. The yielding stress, maximum tensile strength, and Young¡¦s modulus were determined from the tensile stress-strain profiles. The results show that the nanocoils have
superelastic characteristics to the carbon nanotube in the same tube diameter.
In part II:
Investigate the diffusion behavior of water molecules confined inside narrow (5,5)
and (10,10) carbon nanocoils under different tensile strains. The condensed-phase
optimized molecular potentials for atomistic simulation studies (COMPASS) potential
was employed to model the interaction between carbon-carbon atoms¡Acarbon
atoms-water molecules and water-water molecules. To analysis the kinetic behavior of water molecules in two carbon nanocoils, the diffusion coefficients, square displacement (SD) and mean square displacement (MSD) of water molecules were calculated. The results show that diffusion coefficient of water will increase with the strains of carbon nanocoils. However, the diffusion coefficient has a significant decrease in a large strain due to the structural deformation of carbon nanocoils. The
diffusion behaviors of water inside the (5,5) and (10,10) carbon nanotubes were also investigated to compare the results in (5,5) and (10,10) carbon nanotubes. Our results indicate that two carbon nanocoils have a lower diffusion coefficient of water than that of carbon nanotubes because the geometry of carbon nanocoil is easily to block
up the diffusion of water molecules.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0808112-112835
Date08 August 2012
CreatorsChen, Ming-Chang
ContributorsShin-Pon Ju, Chuan Chen, Jin-Yuan Hsieh, Jian-Ming Lu, Jenn-Sen Lin
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0808112-112835
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