Effect of nitrogen or boron impurities on the mechanical and vibrational properties of graphene nanosheets: a molecular dynamics approach

Micro & nano letters

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Mahboube Mehrabani¹  Mohammad Mahdi Khatibi²  Mohammad Reza Ashory²  Sadegh Sadeghzadeh³ 

[1] Mechanical Engineering Department, Semnan University;Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University;Nanotechnology Department, School of New Technologies, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST)

关键词: molecular dynamics method;    graphene;    impurities;    tensile strength;    Young's modulus;    boron;    nitrogen;    nanostructured materials;    molecular dynamics approach;    vibrational properties;    semiempirical method;    Young's modulus;    ultimate tensile strength;    boron impurity;    nanostructure;    boron-doped graphene nanosheet;    nitrogen impurities;    large-scale atomic-molecular massively parallel simulator software;    nitrogen-doped graphene nanosheet;    CN;    CB;   

DOI  :  10.1049/mnl.2020.0044

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

Investigation of mechanical and vibrational properties of nano-structures using the analytical methods would be time-consuming. Therefore, using a semi-empirical method would reduce the time needed to investigate materials characterisation. One of the semi-empirical approaches is molecular dynamics. In this Letter, the large-scale atomic/molecular massively parallel simulator software is used to simulate the mechanical and vibrational behaviour of a nitrogen- and boron-doped 24.04 × 51.13 Å graphene nano-sheet. The natural frequencies, Young's modulus, and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) are studied. By adding impurity to the nanosheet and increasing its density, Young's modulus, UTS, and natural frequencies were decreased. The decrease in tensile properties was more significant in the case of boron impurity. When the boron (nitrogen) impurity increased to about 20%, Young's modulus and the first natural frequency were decreased 7.1% (9%) and 16.8% (73%), respectively. This illustrates that Young's modulus and natural frequencies are directly related. Therefore, for the same dimensions and boundary conditions, it is obvious that the increase in impurity content has reduced the natural frequencies of the nanostructure.

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