... model. In Sec. 3 , a folded, monolayer, graphene nanoribbon will be considered. The common Lennard-Jones potential will be utilized to model the attractive van der Waals force between atoms and the repulsive force when the separation becomes sufficiently small. The force acting on an element of one...

... ) that a carbon nanotube with a large aspect ratio can self-fold due to the van der Waals force between the parts of the same carbon nanotube. The main issue in the self-folding problem is to determine the minimum threshold length of the carbon nanotube at which it becomes possible for the carbon nanotube to self...

...Xiaohu Yao; Qiang Han The buckling of multiwalled carbon nanotubes under torsional load coupling with temperature change is researched. The effects of torsional load, temperature change, surrounding elastic medium, and van der Waals forces between the inner and outer nanotubes are taken...

...-in voltage characteristics of a nanoelectromechanical switch made of a suspended single wall nanotube over a ground plane. The various simulations (MD, continuum and combined MD/continuum) have been performed accounting for the electrostatic and van der Waals forces between the nanotube and the ground plane...

... March 2004 29 06 2004 carbon nanotubes van der Waals forces friction adhesion deformation molecular dynamics method Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Adhesion Friction Contact Molecular Dynamics Tribology concerns with the adhesion and friction when two material surfaces...