Nanomachines driven by thermal bath
Statistical Mechanics
2007-06-01 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
Multiwalled carbon nanotubes based nanomachines driven by thermal bath are proposed in this Letter. Atomistic simulation shows that intershell translational and rotational motion can be activated at sufficiently high temperature, where the van der Waals potential barrier is accessible by the thermal fluctuation. The thermal fluctuation is further identified to be consistent with the equipartition theorem. This model can be used to construct one dimensional devices driven by thermal bath or nano-channels for molecule transport.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0606302,
title = {Nanomachines driven by thermal bath},
author = {Zhiping Xu and Quanshui Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0606302},
year = {2007}
}