Torsional buckling behavior of boron-nitride nanotubes using molecular dynamics simulations

Based on molecular dynamics simulations, the mechanical properties and buckling behavior of boron-nitride nanotubes under the action of torsional load are investigated. According to the results, the torsional properties of a boron-nitride nanotube are higher than those of its carbon counterpart. The effect of geometrical parameters on these parameters is also investigated. It is observed that by increasing the radius of nanotubes of the same length, unlike the critical shear strain, the critical torque considerably increases. The effect of chirality is also found to be negligible in the cases of critical shear strain and buckling mode, unlike the critical torque.     

Molecular dynamics study of the torsional vibration characteristics of boron-nitride nanotubes

In recent years, synthesizing inorganic nanostructures such as boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) has led to extensive studies on their exceptional properties. In this study, the torsional vibration behavior of boron-nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) is explored on the basis of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. The results show that the torsional frequency is sensitive to geometrical parameters such as length and boundary conditions. The axial vibration is found to be induced by torsional vibration of nanotubes which can cause instability in the nanostructure. It is also observed that the torsional frequency of BNNTs is higher than that of their carbon counterpart. Moreover, the shear modulus is predicted by incorporating MD simulation numerical results into torsional vibration frequency obtained through continuum-based model of tubes. Finally, it is seen that the torsional frequency of double-walled boron-nitride nanotubes (DWBNNTs) is between the frequencies of their constituent inner and outer tubes.     

Phonon transport in isotope-disordered carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes: is localization observable?

We present an ab initio study which identifies dominant effects leading to thermal conductivity reductions in carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes with isotope disorder. Our analysis reveals that, contrary to previous speculations, localization effects cannot be observed in the thermal conductivity measurements. Observable reduction of the thermal conductivity is mostly due to diffusive scattering. Multiple scattering induced interference effects were found to be prominent for isotope concentrations > or approximately 10%; otherwise, the thermal conduction is mainly determined by independent scattering contributions of single isotopes. We give explicit predictions of the effect of isotope disorder on nanotube thermal conductivity that can be directly compared with experiments.     

Continuum theory for nanotube piezoelectricity

We develop and solve a continuum theory for the piezoelectric response of one-dimensional nanotubes and nanowires, and apply the theory to study electromechanical effects in boron-nitride nanotubes. We find that the polarization of a nanotube depends on its aspect ratio, and a dimensionless constant specifying the ratio of the strengths of the elastic and electrostatic interactions. The solutions of the model as these two parameters are varied are discussed. The theory is applied to estimate the electric potential induced along the length of a boron-nitride nanotube in response to a uniaxial stress.     

热质的运动和传递——热子气的守恒方程和傅立叶定律

本文在热质和热子气概念的基础上建立了热子气的质量、动量、能量守恒方程.基于傅立叶导热定律求得了热子气粘性系数和粘性力的近似表达式.分析了傅立叶定律的物理意义:傅立叶定律是在忽略惯性力的条件下对热子气动量方程的近似.在极低温度或极高热流密度条件下傅立叶定律不再适用.     

Length Dependence of Thermal Conductivity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Dependence of the thermal conductivity on the length of two armchair single-walled carbon nanotubes （SWNTs） is studied by the nonequilibrium molecular dynamics （MD） method with Brenner Ⅱ potential. The thermal conductivities are calculated for （5, 5） and （7, 7） SWNTs with lengths ranging from 22 to 155nm. The results show that the thermal conductivity of SWNTs is sensitive to the length and it does not converge to a finite value when the tube length increases up to 155nm, however it obeys a power law relation.     

Dragging of polarizable nanodroplets by distantly solvated ions

We show by molecular dynamics simulations that ions intercalated in carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes can be solvated at distance in polarizable nanodroplets adsorbed on their surfaces. When the ions are driven in the nanotubes by electric fields, the adsorbed droplets are dragged together with them. We illustrate this phenomenon by dragging assemblies of 20-10,000 water molecules by individual Na+ and Cl- ions. This ion-facilitated dragging could be applied in molecular delivery, separation, and desalination.     

Boron-nitride and boron-carbonitride nanotubes: synthesis,characterization and theory

We present in this review a joint experimental and theoretical overview of the synthesis techniques and properties of boron-nitride (BN) and boron-carbonitride (BCN) nanotubes. While their tubular structure is similar to that of their carbon analogues, we show that their electronic properties are significantly different. BN tubes are wide band gap insulators while BCN systems can be semiconductors with a band gap in the visible range.     

碳纳米管中点缺陷对热导率影响的正交试验模拟分析

在碳纳米管的制备过程中, 各种点缺陷不可避免地存在于其晶格结构中, 对于碳管的热输运性质造成不可忽视的影响. 使用非平衡分子动力学方法, 选用反应经验键序势能, 模拟计算含有缺陷的碳纳米管的热导率. 尝试采用正交试验方法设计算例, 不但减少了计算量, 并且利于分析缺陷类型、 管长和管径三种结构因素对缺陷造成的热导率下降影响的主次和趋势. 重点研究了掺杂、 吸附和空位三类点缺陷的影响, 与无缺陷完整碳纳米管进行比较, 开展缺陷效应分析, 并进一步考察了环境温度等因素的影响. 模拟结果表明, 相对完整无缺陷碳管, 含有点缺陷的碳管热导率显着下降; 在有缺陷存在的情况下, 缺陷的类型对碳管热导率的影响最大, 管径次之, 管长影响相对最小; 缺陷类型对热导率影响力从大到小依次为: 空位 > 掺杂 > 吸附; 不同环境温度下, 点缺陷对碳管热导率的影响不尽相同.     

声子气的状态方程和声子气运动的守恒方程

根据爱因斯坦的狭义相对论中质能的等效关系，把固体(本文指非导体)晶格(原子)的质量分为晶格(原子)的静质量和晶格热振动能量的等效质量两个部分，后者就是固体中声子气的等效质量.晶格(原子)热振动的能量则分为晶格(原子)静质量具有的热能以及声子气质量具有的热能.基于固体的状态方程，导得了晶格静质量热振动的状态方程和声子气的状态方程.声子气在固体介质中的宏观运动就是热量在固体中的传递过程.建立了声子气运动的守恒方程组，分析表明，忽略惯性力时声子气的动量守恒方程就退化为傅里叶导热定律，阐明了傅里叶导热定律的物理本质是声子气驱动力与阻力的平衡方程.当热流密度很大惯性力不能忽略时，傅里叶导热定律不再适用. 关键词： 非傅里叶导热 声子气 声子气质量 状态方程 守恒方程     

催化剂对碳纳米管产率及质量的影响

本文研究了添加钴/二茂铁、镍/二茂铁、钴、镍/钴不同催化剂对高温热解法制备碳纳米管质量、产率等的影响。高分辨率透射电镜图象显示在800℃左右,镍/二茂铁、钴/二茂铁和钴催化条件下,有多壁碳纳米管生成,而用镍/钴作催化剂时,只有直径在0 5μm左右,长度十几个微米的非晶态棒状物生成。通过对生成碳纳米管的质量和产量进行比较,催化剂的催化活性满足二茂铁>钴>镍。简单分析了在碳源高温热解环境下不同金属催化剂的性能差异,并对不同催化条件下生成物的拉曼光谱进行了分析。     

Excitons in optical spectra of boron-nitride (BN) nanotubes

Exciton effects are studied in single-wall boron-nitride nanotubes. The Coulomb interaction dependence of the band gap, the optical gap, and the binding energy of excitons are discussed. The optical gap of the (5,0) nanotube is about 6 eV at the on-site interaction U=2t with the hopping integral t=1.1 eV. The binding energy of the exciton is 0.50 eV for these parameters. This energy agrees well with that of other theoretical investigations. We find that the energy gap and the binding energy are almost independent of the geometries of nanotubes. This novel property is in contrast with that of the carbon nanotubes, which show metallic and semiconducting properties depending on the chiralities.     

基于热质运动概念的普适导热定律

根据爱因斯坦的质能等效关系式,热能具有的等效质量称为热质,从而在固态和气态介质中分别建立了声子气质量和热子气质量的概念.应用牛顿定律建立了含有驱动力、阻力和惯性力的热质(声子气或热子气)运动的动量守恒方程.由于热量在介质中的传递本质上就是热质(声子气和热子气)在介质中的运动,所以热质动量守恒方程就是普适的导热定律,能够统一描述各种条件下的导热规律.当热流密度不是很大从而热质惯性力可以忽略时,热质动量守恒方程就退化为傅里叶导热定律,这表明傅里叶导热定律是特殊条件下的导热定律,对于微纳尺度条件下的导热,热流密度可以极高,由速度空间变化引起的惯性力不能忽略,在稳态导热情况下也将出现非傅里叶导热,此时在计算或者实验中不能用热流密度除温度梯度求导热系数.在超快速加热条件下,必需考虑惯性力,与基于CV导热模型的波动方程相比,普适的导热定律增加了因速度空间变化引起的惯性力项,所以在介质中热波叠加时不会出现产生负温度的非物理现象,表明基于热质运动概念的普适导热定律更为合理. 关键词： 傅里叶导热定律 普适导热定律 热质运动 非傅里叶导热     

Nanotube phonon waveguide

We find that the high thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes remains intact under severe structural deformations while the corresponding electrical resistance and thermoelectric power show compromised responses. Similar robust thermal transport against bending is found for boron nitride nanotubes. Surprisingly, for both systems the phonon mean free path exceeds the characteristic length of structural ripples induced by bending and approaches the theoretical limit set by the radius of curvature. The robustness of heat conduction in nanotubes refines the ultimate limit that is far beyond the reach of ordinary materials.     

封装钠的硼氮纳米管在垂直构型下场发射的第一性原理研究

采用密度泛函形式化的自洽方法模拟了纯的硼氮纳米管和封装钠的硼氮纳米管在垂直于管轴的电场作用下的场发射. 发现硼氮纳米管封装钠之后的近自由电子态参与场发射并表现出很强的发射特性.通过分析场发射总能量分布曲线的特征,探索近自由电子态对于场发射的作用和场发射电流对于外电场的响应. 发现在垂直管轴的发射构型下,场发射具有很灵敏的电场响应度,这是与硼氮纳米管中近自由电子态的特殊分布取向有关.     

Effects of doping, Stone Wales and vacancy defects on thermal conductivity of single-wall carbon nanotubes

The thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes with certain defects (doping, Stone-Wales, and vacancy) is investigated by using the non-equilibrium molecular dynamics method. The defective carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are compared with perfect tubes. The influences of type and concentration of the defect, length, diameter, and chirality of the tube, and the ambient temperature are taken into consideration. It is demonstrated that defects result in a dramatic reduction of thermal conductivity. Doping and Stone-Wales (SW) defects have greater effect on armchair tubes, while vacancy affects the zigzag ones more. Thermal conductivity of the nanotubes increases, reaches a peak, and then decreases with increasing temperature. The temperature at which the thermal conductivity peak occurs is dependent on the defect type. Different from SW or vacancy tubes, doped tubes are similar to the perfect ones with a sharp peak at the same temperature. Thermal conductivity goes up when the tube length grows or diameter declines. It seems that the length of thermal conductivity convergence for SW tubes is much shorter than perfect or vacancy ones. The SW or vacancy tubes are less sensitive to the diameter change, compared with perfect ones.     

碳纳米管电缆式复合材料的热导率

通过非平衡分子动力学方法, 对单壁碳管填充金纳米线的碳纳米管电缆式复合材料开展热导率的模拟分析. 采用Tersoff势函数描述碳-碳原子间的相互作用, Lennard-Jones长程作用势描述碳-金原子间的相互作用, 嵌入原子势函数描述金-金原子间相互作用. 研究结果表明: 相同尺寸下, 金纳米线的电子热导率相较于空碳管以及电缆式复合材料的声子热导率小很多, 对复合材料总热导率的贡献可以忽略; 由于管内金纳米线的存在, 其与碳管的相互作用使得碳管碳原子倾向于沿着轴向振动, 声子间U散射随之减少, 声子平均自由程增加, 导致复合材料热导率明显大于空碳管, 在100–500 K温度范围内高出约20%–45%, 但增大幅度随温升呈降低趋势; 复合材料热导率随着管长增加而增大, 变化趋势和空碳管相似, 但其增长幅度更大; 复合材料和空碳管的热导率随管径增大而减小, 且变化幅度基本一致. 关键词： 碳纳米管 纳米线 电缆式复合材料 导热     

Simple one-dimensional model of heat conduction which obeys Fourier's law.

We present the computer simulation results of a chain of hard-point particles with alternating masses interacting on its extremes with two thermal baths at different temperatures. We found that the system obeys Fourier's law at the thermodynamic limit. This result is against the actual belief that one-dimensional systems with momentum conservative dynamics and nonzero pressure have infinite thermal conductivity. It seems that thermal resistivity occurs in our system due to a cooperative behavior in which light particles tend to absorb much more energy than the heavier ones.     

Thermal conductivity for single-walled carbon nanotubes from Einstein relation in molecular dynamics

Equilibrium molecular dynamics based Einstein relation with an appropriate definition for integrated heat current (i.e., with modified energy moment) are combined to quantify the thermal conductivity of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes, armchair, zigzag and chiral tubes. The thermal conductivity has been investigated as a function of three parameters, tube radius, length and chirality at and near room temperature with Brenner potential model. Thermal conductivity is found to have unusually high value and varies with radius, length and chirality of tubes. Also the thermal conductivity at temperature range from 50 to 100 K is found to have a maximum value. For 12.1 nm tube length, the thermal conductivity has converging trend which its value dependents on the tube radius and chirality. Tubes with large radius have lower values of thermal conductivity. Furthermore, the results show that armchair tubes have large values of the thermal conductivity comparing with zigzag and chiral tubes. It seems possible to uncover carbon nanotubes thermal properties based on measurements having heat dependence by adding another methods for calculations.     

单壁BN纳米管和碳纳米管物理吸附储氢性能的理论对比研究

采用巨正则蒙特卡罗方法(GCMC)研究了单壁氮化硼纳米管(SWBNNTs)和单壁碳纳米管(SWCNTs)的物理吸附储氢性能,主要对比研究了纳米管的管径、温度和手性对二者物理吸附储氢量的影响. 研究结果表明：在低温下,SWBNNTs的物理吸附储氢性能优于相应的SWCNTs;但是随着温度的升高,二者的物理吸附储氢性能差别越来越小,在常温下,SWBNNTs不具备有比SWCNTs更强的物理吸附储氢性能,而是和相同条件下的SWCNTs相差不大,只是在高压下的物理吸附储氢量稍稍大于SWCNTs,并给出了合理的理论解释 关键词： 巨正则蒙特卡罗方法(GCMC) 单壁氮化硼纳米管(SWBNNTs) 单壁碳纳米管(SWCNTs) 储氢