Simulations on the effects of confinement and Ni-catalysis on the formation of tubular fullerene structures from peapod precursors

We applied the recently developed reactive force field (ReaxFF) to study the dynamics of tubular fullerene formation process starting from C60-buckyball/nanotube peapod structures. We found that the space confinement provided by the single-wall nanotube encapsulating the buckyballs is...

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Main Authors: Su, Haibin, Adri C. T. van Duin, Nielsen, Robert J., Goddard III, William A.
Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93824
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6897