Molecular dynamics study of nano mass transfer in a vibrating cantilevered carbon-nanotube

We investigate the nano mass transfer in an ultrahigh frequency carbon-nanotube-resonator encapsulating a nanocluster via classical molecular dynamics simulations. When the carbon-nanotube-resonator vibrated, the encapsulated copper nanocluster more rapidly approached the end of the cantilevered carbon-nanotube-resonator. Such phenomena were due to the migration of the encapsulated copper nanocluster due to the centrifugal force induced by the vibrating nanotube resonator. So the resonance frequency change could be time-dependently found. For the movable copper nanocluster in carbon nanotube resonator, the vibrational spectra when the copper nanocluster inside the carbon nanotube resonator rapidly settled at the capped edge were different from those obtained when the copper nanocluster continuously oscillated inside the carbon nanotube resonator. Such results showed that the frequency of the carbon-nanotube-resonator encapsulating the movable copper nanocluster could be adjusted by controlling the mean position of the oscillating copper nanocluster. The movable nanocluster inside a carbon-nanotube can be applied to a nanotube-based data storage media by sensing the position of the nanocluster.