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Investigating interfacial contact configuration and behavior of single-walled carbon nanotube-based nanodevice with atomistic simulations

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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), including single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs), are considered to be the promising candidates for next-generation interconnects with excellent physical and chemical properties ranging from ultrahigh mechanical strength, to electrical properties, to thermal conductivity, to optical properties, etc. To further study the interfacial contact configurations of SWNT-based nanodevice with a 13.56-Å diameter, the corresponding simulations are carried out with the molecular dynamic method. The nanotube collapses dramatically into the surface with the complete collapse on the Au/Ag/graphite electrode surface and slight distortion on the Si/SiO2 substrate surface, respectively. The related dominant mechanism is studied and explained. Meanwhile, the interfacial contact configuration and behavior, depended on other factors, are also analyzed in this article.

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This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51505371, 11372264), Hong Kong Scholars Program (XJ2015038), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2014M562397, 2015T81018), a research grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (CityU 114013), Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT_15R54), State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System (HIT) (SKLRS-2016-KF-13), and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University (KF2016_11).

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, People’s Republic of China

    Jianlei Cui, Jianwei Zhang, Xuesong Mei & Wenjun Wang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, People’s Republic of China

    Jianlei Cui, Jianwei Zhang & Xinju Yang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, People’s Republic of China

    Jianlei Cui, Jianwei Zhang, Hui Xie, Lijun Yang & Yang Wang

  4. Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Jianlei Cui & Xiaoqiao He

  5. Center for Advanced Structural Materials, City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, 518057, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoqiao He

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Cui, J., Zhang, J., He, X. et al. Investigating interfacial contact configuration and behavior of single-walled carbon nanotube-based nanodevice with atomistic simulations. J Nanopart Res 19, 110 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-017-3811-0

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