Intrinsic edge warping of graphene nanoribbon boost molecular directional motion: Toward the novel nanodevices

Yafei Wang; Changguo Wang; Huifeng Tan

doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2019.01.054

Intrinsic edge warping of graphene nanoribbon boost molecular directional motion: Toward the novel nanodevices

Yafei Wang
, Changguo Wang^*
, Huifeng Tan

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Astronautics

Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

In this letter, nanodirectional motion due to intrinsic warping edge of graphene nanoribbon is demonstrated using theoretical analysis and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. Simulation model is established and the underlying physical insights of intrinsic nanodirectional motion are investigated. It is found that nanodirectional motion of carbon fullerene is gradient-dependent. Directional motion with +z-warping graphene edge is energetically favorable over the −z-warping configuration. As a result, a novel nanodirectional motion actuator inspired by intrinsic edge warping with Gaussian curvature can be designed. The obtained results in current research are fundamental and general, similar intrinsic properties and design paradigms can be applied to other 2D materials beyond graphene.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1473-1477
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume	383
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2019.01.054
State	Published - 24 Apr 2019

Keywords

Curvature gradient
Directional motion
Edge warping
Nanoactuator
vdW distribution

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