A molecular dynamics simulation of carbon nanotube bundling via weak intermolecular interactions (van der Waals forces). A single degree of freedom "lollipop" model was implemented to improve the simulation efficiency. The simulation in the video represents 50 nanotubes 100 nm in length, over 1,000,000 integration steps.
Laboratory of Atomic Molecular Mechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.I.T.
http://web.mit.edu/mbuehler/www/
MD simulation using LAMMPS
http://lammps.sandia.gov/
Movie made using VMD
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Contact: cranford@mit.edu
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