Feng-Shou Zhang
Beijing Normal University, China
Title: Collision-induced fusion of two single-walled carbon nanotubes: A quantitative study
Biography
Biography: Feng-Shou Zhang
Abstract
The coalescence processes of two (6,0) single-walled carbon nanotubes are investigated via coaxial collision based on the self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding molecular dynamics method. According to the structure characteristics of the nanotubes, five impact cases are studied to explore the coalescence processes of the nanotubes. The simulation shows that various kinds of carbon nanomaterials, such as graphene sheets, graphene nanoribbons, and singlewalled carbon nanotubes with larger diameters, are created after collision. Moreover, some defects formed in the carbon nanomaterials can be eliminated, and even the final configurations which are originally fragmented can almost become intact structures by properly quenching and annealing.