The term “nanotechnology” mainly refers more to an order of magnitude then to a specific scientific discipline. The word is used quite generally to mean the visualisation, characterization, production and manipulation of particles smaller than 100 nm. The field of nanotechnology has, however, seen the greatest progress, and some of its products are already available commercially. A nanomaterial...

Several fabrication methods have been proposed to develop the metal matrix nanocomposites (MMNCs) reinforced by carbon nanomaterials (mostly nanotubes, and graphene) means of liquid-state solid-state techniques. The spraying processes, squeeze casting, disintegrated melt deposition milling fabrication, friction stir processing used fabricate composite. However, MMNCs, containing fullerenes as r...

We applied the recently developed reactive force field ReaxFF to study the dynamics of tubular fullerene formation process starting from C60-buckyball/nanotube peapod structures. We found that the space confinement provided by the single-wall nanotube encapsulating the buckyballs is of critical importance to this coalescence reaction. We also simulated the effects of Ni particles on the coalesc...

The 0 60 "buckyball" I a prominent member of the recently discovered family of fullerene molecules, is an unusual system with exciting properties. This contribution summarizes the present state of theoretical understanding of the equilibrium structure of carbon clusters, in particular the fullerenes, the optical properties of individual fullerene molecules, superconductivity in the alkali-inter...

The dynamic impact response of giant buckyball C720 is investigated by using molecular dynamics simulations. The non-recoverable deformation of C720 makes it an ideal candidate for high-performance energy absorption. Firstly, mechanical behaviors under dynamic impact and low-speed crushing are simulated and modeled, which clarifies the buckling-related energy absorption mechanism. One-dimension...

The chlorination of singly and multiply charged C60 cations has been investigated with the selected-ion flow tube technique. Observations are reported for the reactions of C60 , C60 21 and C60 z31 with Cl2, CCl4, CDCl3, CH2Cl2 and CH3Cl at room temperature (295 6 2 K) in helium at a total pressure of 0.35 6 0.02 Torr. C60 z1 and C60 21 were observed not to chlorinate, or react in any other way,...