Publications

@proceedings{perim2013fracture,
title = {Fracture Patterns of Boron Nitride Nanotubes},
author = {Perim, Eric and Santos, Ricardo Paupitz and Autreto, Pedro Alves da Silva and Galvao, Douglas S},
url = {http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8883390&fileId=S1946427413004946},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
journal = {MRS Proceedings},
volume = {1526},
pages = {mrsf12--1526},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
abstract = {During the last years carbon-based nanostructures (such as, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene) have been object of intense investigations. The great interest in these nanostructures can be attributed to their remarkable electrical and mechanical properties. Their inorganic equivalent structures do exist and are based on boron nitride (BN) motifs. BN fullerenes, nanotubes and single layers have been already synthesized. Recently, the fracture patterns of single layer graphene and multi-walled carbon nanotubes under stress have been studied by theoretical and experimental methods. In this work we investigated the fracturing process of defective carbon and boron nitride nanotubes under similar stress conditions. We have carried out fully atomistic molecular reactive molecular dynamics simulations using the ReaxFF force field. The similarities and differences between carbon and boron nitride fracture patterns are addressed.},
keywords = {Boron Nitride, Fracture, Mechanical Properties, Unzipping},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}

@proceedings{perim2013hydrogenation,
title = {The Hydrogenation Dynamics of h-BN Sheets},
author = {Perim, Eric and Paupitz, Ricardo and Autreto, PAS and Galvao, DS},
url = {http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8943477&fileId=S1946427413007938},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
journal = {MRS Proceedings},
volume = {1549},
pages = {91--98},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
abstract = {Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), also known as white graphite, is the inorganic analogue of graphite. Single layers of both structures have been already experimentally realized.
In this work we have investigated, through fully atomistic reactive molecular dynamics simulations, the dynamics of hydrogenation of h-BN single-layers membranes.
Our results show that the rate of hydrogenation atoms bonded to the membrane is highly dependent on the temperature and that only at low temperatures there is a preferential bond to boron atoms. Unlike graphanes (hydrogenated graphene), hydrogenated h-BN membranes do not exhibit the formation of correlated domains. Also, the out-of-plane deformations are more pronounced in comparison with the graphene case. After a critical number of incorporated hydrogen atoms the membrane become increasingly defective, lost its two-dimensional character and collapses. The hydrogen radial pair distribution and second-nearest neighbor correlations were also analyzed.},
keywords = {Boron Nitride, Hydrogenation, Molecular Dynamics, Nanotubes},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}

@proceedings{dos2012tribological,
title = {Tribological Properties of Graphene and Boron-Nitride Layers: A Fully Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Study},
author = {dos Santos, Ricardo P and Machado, Leonardo D and Legoas, Sergio B and Galvao, Douglas S},
url = {http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8537106&fileId=S1946427412007063},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
journal = {MRS Proceedings},
volume = {1407},
pages = {mrsf11--1407},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
abstract = {Graphene has been one of the most important subjects in materials science in the last years. Recently, the frictional characteristics of atomically thin sheets were experimentally investigated using atomic force microscopy (AFM). A new mechanism to explain the enhanced friction for these materials, based on elastic compliance has been proposed. Here, we have investigated the tribological properties of graphene and boron-nitride (single and multi-layers) membranes using fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. These simulations were carried out using classical force fields, as implemented in the Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS) code. The used structural models contain typically hundreds of thousands of atoms. In order to mimic the experimental conditions, an artificial AFM tip was moved over the membranes and the tribological characteristics determined in terms of forces and energies. Our results are in good agreement with the available experimental data. They show that the observed enhanced tribological properties can be explained in terms of out-of-plane geometrical distortions and elastic waves propagation. They validate the general features of the model proposed by Lee et al. (Science 328, 76 (2010).},
keywords = {Boron Nitride, Graphene, Molecular Dynamics, Tribology},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}

@proceedings{perim2011stability,
title = {Stability and Dynamics of Boron Nitride Nanoscrolls},
author = {Perim, Eric and Galvao, Douglas S},
url = {http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=8200678&jid=OPL&volumeId=1307&issueId=-1&aid=8200676},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
journal = {MRS Proceedings},
volume = {1307},
pages = {mrsf10--1307},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
abstract = {We report here molecular dynamics results for boron nitride nanoscroll structures
(BNNSs) with relation to their stability and formation mechanisms. We show that, similarly to
carbon nanoscrolls, BNNSs are stable due to van der Waals interactions among overlapping
layers. The energy balance between losses and gains (due to elastic deformations and van der
Waals interactions, respectively) when the structure is rolled up leads to the existence of a
critical value of the internal scroll diameter where stable or metastable structures can be formed.
The mechanisms of scroll formation and stability as a function of their chirality were also
investigated.},
keywords = {Boron Nitride, Molecular Dynamics, Scrolls},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}