Dynamics of fullerene coalescence

Details Dynamics of fullerene coalescence Dynamics of fullerene coalescence

2002-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0211059v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 2 figures, 1 supplementary movie at http://dielc.kaist.ac.kr/yonghyun/coal.mpeg. To be published in Physical Review

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.065501

Fullerene coalescence experimentally found in fullerene-embedded single-wall nanotubes under electron-beam irradiation or heat treatment is simulated by minimizing the classical action for many atom systems. The dynamical trajectory for forming a (5,5) C$_{120}$ nanocapsule from two C$_{60}$ fullerene molecules consists of thermal motions around potential basins and ten successive Stone-Wales-type bond rotations after the initial cage-opening process for which energy cost is about 8 eV. Dynamical paths for forming large-diameter nanocapsules with (10,0), (6,6), and (12,0) chiral indexes have more bond rotations than 25 with the transition barriers in a range of 10--12 eV.

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