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Published on: April 15, 2013
Energy exchanges in carbon nanotube oscillators
Yang Zhao1, Chi-Chiu Ma, Lai-Ho Wong
1Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Energy exchanges between orderly intertube axial motion and vibrational modes are studied for isolated systems of two coaxial carbon nanotubes at temperatures ranging from 300 to 500 K. It is found that the excess intertube van der Waals energy, depleted from the intertube axial motion, is primarily stored in low-frequency mechanical modes of the oscillator for an extended period of time. This constitutes the first computer simulation of a nanomechanical device that exhibits negative friction.
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