Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Dandan Zhao, Feng Dai, Jing Li, Lin Zhang
Summary: Molecular dynamics simulations were used to investigate the packing changes and mechanical properties of tilted interface Si/Ge superlattice nanowires. The results show that the size, layer thickness, and interface bonding have significant effects on the thermal stability and mechanical properties of the nanowires.
APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Farzane Hasheminia, Yaser Bahari, Ali Rajabpour, Saeed Arabha
Summary: Thermal and mechanical properties of silicon nanowires along the [110] direction were studied using molecular dynamics approach with Tersoff potential. It was found that the thermal conductivity of silicon nanowires is significantly lower than bulk silicon and strongly dependent on size, while the elastic modulus, fractural strain, and stress decrease dramatically with increasing temperature and nano-scaling. This study sheds further lights on the thermo-mechanical behavior of silicon nanowires, providing valuable information for applications such as in Li-ion batteries.
COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Crystallography
Dandan Zhao, Jing Li, Lin Zhang
Summary: The melting and mechanical behaviors of silicon nanowires are strongly dependent on their cross-section area, with wires of small cross-section area being prone to thermal stability issues, and wires of larger cross-section area exhibiting disorder under high temperatures similar to melting.
Article
Crystallography
Dandan Zhao, Yang Cui, Jing Li, Lin Zhang
Summary: Molecular dynamics simulations were used to study the structural and mechanical properties of Si/Ge core-shell nanowires at different temperatures. The results showed that temperature and strain have a significant effect on the performance of these nanowires, and the core-shell ratio affects the Young's modulus.
Article
Polymer Science
Riki Maicas, Irena Yungerman, Yarden B. Weber, Simcha Srebnik
Summary: Epoxy resins are commonly used adhesives in industry for their diverse properties, which can be tailored through molecular simulations. The decreasing trend of the elastic modulus with increasing temperature is accurately captured, while the glass transition temperature is overpredicted due to high rates accessible to simulations. Poisson's ratio is sensitive to sample anisotropy and evaluation method, explaining the lack of consistent trends observed previously.
Article
Mechanics
Dongyuan Du, Chao Tang, Yujing Tang, Lu Yang, Jian Hao
Summary: This study used molecular dynamics simulation technology to investigate the impact of carbon nanowires on the thermodynamic properties of cellulose insulating paper. The results showed that different structures of carbon nanowires can improve the thermodynamic properties of cellulose, with hard chiral carbon nanowires having the most significant effect.
COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Ceramics
Vinh V. Le, Le Thi Hong Lien
Summary: The Al2O3.2SiO2 glass sample was constructed using the molecular dynamics method to analyze its structural characteristics and mechanical behavior. The AS2 glass exhibits brittle behavior, with most SiO4 units remaining unchanged. Under tensile deformation, large simplexes are formed with atoms having the highest configurational entropy.
JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Tao E. Li, Abraham Nitzan, Joseph E. Subotnik
Summary: For a small fraction of hot CO2 molecules immersed in a liquid-phase CO2 thermal bath, forming collective vibrational strong coupling (VSC) between the C=O asymmetric stretch of CO2 molecules and a cavity mode accelerates hot-molecule relaxation. The acceleration is resonantly dependent on the cavity mode detuning, cooperatively dependent on Rabi splitting, and collectively scales with the number of hot molecules.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2021)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Hui Cao, Wenke Chen, Zhiyuan Rui, Changfeng Yan
Summary: This study investigates the mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of Cu nanowires/nanoplates with different cross-sectional shapes, aspect ratios, and orientations using molecular dynamics simulations. The results provide insights into the size effect on the mechanical properties of metal nanomaterials.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Polina V. Polyakova, Julia A. Baimova
Summary: Molecular dynamics simulation was used to investigate the mechanical properties of multilayered graphene with increased interlayer distance under compression and tension. Different directions showed significantly distinguishable mechanical properties. Two competitive mechanism were found, the crumpling and sliding of graphene layers. Multilayer graphene after compression exhibited high tensile stress combined with high plasticity. The study of such complex architecture is an important step towards the design of advanced carbon nanomaterials with improved mechanical properties.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Jiacheng Zhang, Xinyun Wang, Mo Li
Summary: Metallic glasses are typically brittle solids at a macroscopic level but exhibit high ductility at the nanoscale, with oxygen being a major factor in their brittleness. Adding oxygen to an aluminum-based metallic glass can transform it from brittle to ductile, with mechanisms involving keeping oxide sizes small and preserving free volumes around oxide clusters. This finding challenges researchers to explore new types of glasses that are not only oxygen-tolerant but also beneficial in mechanical properties.
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Bruno Faria, Nuno Silvestre
Summary: Phenine Nanotubes (PhNT) have lower mechanical properties compared to carbon nanotubes (CNTs), but they offer advantages in terms of higher tensile strain endurance and flexible sidewalls due to superior porosity.
EXTREME MECHANICS LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Polymer Science
Qionghai Chen, Wanhui Huang, Pengwei Duan, Tongkui Yue, Liqun Zhang, Xiaohui Wu, Jun Liu
Summary: This study investigates the structure-mechanics relationship of filled natural rubber using molecular dynamic simulation and shows that the stress-strain behavior is significantly influenced by the content, size, and strength of interfacial interaction of nanoparticles.
Article
Materials Science, Ceramics
Yutong Chen, Ayyaz Mahmood, Yan Xu, Shuaishuai Wang, Zhitao Yin, Zhengyang Jin
Summary: In this study, the influence of different binders, such as PVA, CS, and SA, on the mechanical properties of bioceramic slurry was investigated using molecular dynamics simulations and experiments. The results showed that PVA had excellent mechanical properties, while other binders exhibited problems such as low solubility and poor stiffness. The slurry prepared with CSi and 10% PVA showed the best mechanical performance, meeting the requirements for compressive strength of cancellous bone defects.
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Filippo Cellini, Francesco Lavini, Elton Chen, Angelo Bongiorno, Filip Popovic, Ryan L. Hartman, Remi Dingreville, Elisa Riedo
Summary: Understanding phase transformations in 2D materials is crucial for advancements in nanotechnology. Experiments and simulations have shown that applying local pressure can induce the formation of a diamond BN phase on h-BN, which remains metastable upon pressure release. Furthermore, the indentation stiffness of h-BN on SiO2 varies with pressure and number of layers, providing insights into the mechanical properties of 2D materials.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Orestis George Ziogos, Doros Nicolas Theodorou
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Orestis G. Ziogos, Stefanos Konstantinopoulos, Leonidas Tsetseris, Doros N. Theodorou
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
(2018)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samuele Giannini, Antoine Carof, Matthew Ellis, Hui Yang, Orestis George Ziogos, Soumya Ghosh, Jochen Blumberger
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2019)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Orestis George Ziogos, Itsaso Blanco, Jochen Blumberger
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samuele Giannini, Orestis George Ziogos, Antoine Carof, Matthew Ellis, Jochen Blumberger
ADVANCED THEORY AND SIMULATIONS
(2020)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Matthew Ellis, Hui Yang, Samuele Giannini, Orestis G. Ziogos, Jochen Blumberger
Summary: The central challenge of organic semiconductor research is to develop cheap, disordered materials with high electrical conductivity. A novel computational methodology has been presented to address the poor fundamental understanding of the relationship between molecular packing structure and charge carrier mobility. Quantum dynamical simulations show a clear correlation between crystallinity, quantum delocalization, and charge carrier mobility, challenging the long-held belief of relatively localized charge carriers in disordered organic materials.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Orestis George Ziogos, Adam Kubas, Zdenek Futera, Weiwei Xie, Marcus Elstner, Jochen Blumberger
Summary: A new molecular dataset named HAB79 is introduced to provide ab initio reference values for electronic couplings and to benchmark DFT and DFTB calculations. The study shows that CASSCF/NEVPT2 is a robust reference method for relatively large molecules, with different types of dimers exhibiting varying electronic couplings.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Orestis George Ziogos, Jochen Blumberger
Summary: The development of highly efficient methods for calculating electronic coupling matrix elements in theoretical organic semiconductor research is important. By reparameterizing and extending the analytic overlap method (AOM), researchers were able to apply it to molecules containing nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, and sulfur heteroatoms, enabling high-throughput screening of chemically diverse organic crystal structures. The extension of AOM allows for the application of computationally intense non-adiabatic molecular dynamics methods in the study of state-of-the-art organic semiconductors.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Orestis George Ziogos, Samuele Giannini, Matthew Ellis, Jochen Blumberger
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
O. G. Ziogos, D. N. Theodorou
MATERIALS TODAY-PROCEEDINGS
(2018)
Proceedings Paper
Mathematics, Applied
O. G. Ziogos, G. Megariotis, D. N. Theodorou
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL MODELING IN PHYSICAL SCIENCES (IC-MSQUARE 2016)
(2016)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Orestis George Ziogos, Doros Nicolas Theodorou
2015 IEEE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NANOTECHNOLOGY (IEEE-NANO)
(2015)
Proceedings Paper
Physics, Applied
Grigorios Megariotis, Orestis G. Ziogos, Doros N. Theodorou
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING 2015 (ICCMSE 2015)
(2015)