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Published on: February 5, 2017
Carbon nanotube motors driven by carbon nanotube
Yoshiteru Takagi1, Tsuyoshi Uda, Takahisa Ohno
1Institute for Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku 153-8505, Japan. ytakagi@comas.frsc.tsukuba.ac.jp
Abstract:
We propose a new type of carbon nanotube (CNT) motor composed of a single-wall CNT (SWCNT) and a double-wall CNT (DWCNT), that are in mechanical contact. The rotational motion of our CNT motor is controllable by the translational motion of the SWCNT along the axis of the DWCNT. From molecular dynamics simulations, we show how our CNT motor can be driven in a controlled manner.
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