Actas de congresos
On the existence of ordered phases of encapsulated diamondoids into carbon nanotubes
Fecha
2012-12-05Registro en:
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, v. 1407, p. 55-60.
0272-9172
10.1557/opl.2012.704
2-s2.0-84870319901
Autor
Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Institución
Resumen
We have investigated some diamondoids encapsulation into single walled carbon nanotubes (with diameters ranging from1.0 up to 2.2 nm) using fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. Diamondoids are the smallest hydrogen-terminated nanosized diamond-like molecules. Diamondois have been investigated for a large class of applications, ranging from oil industry to pharmaceuticals. Molecular ordered phases were observed for the encapsulation of adamantane, diamantane, and dihydroxy diamantanes. Chiral ordered phases, such as; double, triple, 4- and 5-stranded helices were also observed for those diamondoids. Our results also indicate that the modification of diamondoids through chemical functionalization with hydroxyl groups can lead to an enhancement of the molecular packing inside the carbon nanotubes in comparison to non-functionalized molecules. For larger diamondoids (such as, adamantane tetramers), we have not observed long-range ordering, but only a tendency of incomplete helical structural formation. © 2012 Materials Research Society.