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Pedro A Autreto Ricardo P dos Santos, Eric Perim

On the Unzipping Mechanisms of Carbon Nanotubes: Insights from Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations Conference

On the Unzipping Mechanisms of Carbon Nanotubes: Insights from Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations, no. DD1.4, MRSSpring 2012, 2012.

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@conference{2012MRSSpring-DD,

title = {On the Unzipping Mechanisms of Carbon Nanotubes: Insights from Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations},

author = {Ricardo P dos Santos, Pedro A Autreto, Eric Perim, Gustavo Brunetto, Douglas S Galvao},

url = {http://www.mrs.org/s12-program-dd/

https://sites.ifi.unicamp.br/autretos/files/2015/04/2012MRSSpringMeeting-DD-Program-Symposium-D-Nanocontacts–Emerging-Materials-and-Processing-for-Ohmicity-and-Rectification-2012-MRS-Spring-Meeting.pdf},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-04-09},

booktitle = {On the Unzipping Mechanisms of Carbon Nanotubes: Insights from Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations},

number = {DD1.4},

publisher = {MRSSpring 2012},

abstract = {Graphene has been one of the hottest topics in materials science today. Due to its unique and unusual electronic properties graphene is been considered one of the most promising materials for the basis of a new nanoelectronics. However, in its pristine form graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor. This poses serious limitations to its use in some kind of electronic applications (some kind of transistors). In order to create non-zero graphene-like structures many approaches have been tried, such as, hydrogenation, fluorination and/or other chemical and physical functionalizations, with limited success. It has also been shown that making thin graphene stripes, the so-called graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), it is possible to create non-zero structures with some control of the process. But large scale and controlled GNR synthesis has been proved to be very difficult. Another possibility of producing GNR in a more controllable way is through cutting (unzipping) carbon nanotubes (CNTs). This has been achieved with different chemical [1] and physical [2] approaches. However, in spite of many experimental and theoretical studies on this problem, some important aspects remain to be fully understood. In this work we investigated the process of CNT fracture (unzipping) through molecular dynamics simulations using reactive force fields (ReaxFF), as implemented in the LAMMPS code. We considered multi-walled CNTs of different dimensions and chiralities and under mechanical stretching. Our results show that the unzipping mechanisms are highly dependent on CNT chirality. Well defined and distinct fracture patterns were observed for different chiralities. Zig-zag CNTs favor the creation of GNRs with well defined armchair edges, while armchair and chiral CNTs produde GNRs with less defined (defective) edges. The reasons why almost perfect linear CNT cuts are so frequently observed are also addressed. [1] D. V. Kosynkin et al., Nature v458, 872 (2009). [2] L. Jiao et al, Nature v458, 877 (2009).},

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Graphene has been one of the hottest topics in materials science today. Due to its unique and unusual electronic properties graphene is been considered one of the most promising materials for the basis of a new nanoelectronics. However, in its pristine form graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor. This poses serious limitations to its use in some kind of electronic applications (some kind of transistors). In order to create non-zero graphene-like structures many approaches have been tried, such as, hydrogenation, fluorination and/or other chemical and physical functionalizations, with limited success. It has also been shown that making thin graphene stripes, the so-called graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), it is possible to create non-zero structures with some control of the process. But large scale and controlled GNR synthesis has been proved to be very difficult. Another possibility of producing GNR in a more controllable way is through cutting (unzipping) carbon nanotubes (CNTs). This has been achieved with different chemical [1] and physical [2] approaches. However, in spite of many experimental and theoretical studies on this problem, some important aspects remain to be fully understood. In this work we investigated the process of CNT fracture (unzipping) through molecular dynamics simulations using reactive force fields (ReaxFF), as implemented in the LAMMPS code. We considered multi-walled CNTs of different dimensions and chiralities and under mechanical stretching. Our results show that the unzipping mechanisms are highly dependent on CNT chirality. Well defined and distinct fracture patterns were observed for different chiralities. Zig-zag CNTs favor the creation of GNRs with well defined armchair edges, while armchair and chiral CNTs produde GNRs with less defined (defective) edges. The reasons why almost perfect linear CNT cuts are so frequently observed are also addressed. [1] D. V. Kosynkin et al., Nature v458, 872 (2009). [2] L. Jiao et al, Nature v458, 877 (2009).

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Autreto, PAS; Galvao, Douglas S; Santos, Ricardo PB; Legoas, SB

Graphene to Fluorographene: A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study Journal Article

In: Physicæ Proceedings, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3, 2012.

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