Multiscale molecular modeling and simulation of carbon nanotubes

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Main Author: Yeak, Su Hoe
Other Authors: Liew Kim Meow
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Published: 2010
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-360482023-03-11T17:46:48Z Multiscale molecular modeling and simulation of carbon nanotubes Yeak, Su Hoe Liew Kim Meow Ng Teng Yong School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Nanotechnology 200 p. Due to their excellent mechanical properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have undergone intense scrutiny by the research community at large since their discovery in 1991. In this thesis, we propose and implement an overlapping scheme to concurrently couple empirical molecular dynamics (MD) with both semi-empirical tight-binding (TB) and ab initio density-functional theory (DFT). The multiscaling of these three approaches is then used to numerically study the mechanical properties and dynamic characteristics of CNTs. Since MD is based on empirical potential functions, it is relatively "cheap" in terms of computational intensity, and is therefore the technique of choice throughout most of the domains in the CNT during simulation. However, when there is large deformation and/or bond breaking, more robust and refined techniques are required, namely TB or DFT. Basically, the TB technique is a simplification of the ab initio method, where a minimal basis set is used in the Hamiltonian system. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (MAE) 2010-04-23T02:25:19Z 2010-04-23T02:25:19Z 2007 2007 Thesis Yeak, S. H. (2007). Multiscale molecular modeling and simulation of carbon nanotubes. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/36048 10.32657/10356/36048 application/pdf
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Yeak, Su Hoe
Multiscale molecular modeling and simulation of carbon nanotubes
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