Topological annealing of carbon nanostructures : a new structure evolution algorithm
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Authors
Bullard, Zachary
Issue Date
2014-05
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Materials science and engineering
Alternative Title
Abstract
In the course of coding the fundamental principles of ATAC, the author has investigated several avenues of scientific inquiry including parameterizations of graph theory, spintronics, energy barriers, and other interesting and applicable phenomena. With the algorithm itself, the configuration space of various combinations of welded carbon nanotubes, C60 molecules, and graphene sheets were probed, characterizing both the intermediate transformations and final configurations.
Description
May 2014
School of Engineering
School of Engineering
Full Citation
Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY