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Volume 5, Issue 6 (Suppl)
J Mat. Sci.
ISSN: 2321-6212
Advanced Materials 2017
October 26-28, 2017
OCTOBER 26-28, 2017 OSAKA, JAPAN
13
TH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Molecular dynamics study of graphene mobius bands: Equilibrium shapes and energies
Yoichi Takato and Eliot Fried
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
G
raphene is a highly flexible 2D material that can easily bend and fold. This mechanical flexibility allows us to build various
graphene-based structures such as Carbon Nanotubes and nano-origami shapes. The Mobius band, a non-orientable
one-sided surface constructed by twisting a rectangular strip by 180 degrees and joining the ends, is a theoretically possible
graphene-based structure but has not yet been observed in the laboratory. We use molecular dynamics to determine the
equilibrium shapes and mechanical energies of Mobius bands made of monolayer graphene nanoribbons with armchair and
zigzag edges. Our results show resemblance to continuumMobius bands regardless of the discrete nature of the lattice structure
and associated edge types. From the structural stability and energetics views, we discuss the feasibility of fabricating nanoscale
graphene Mobius bands.
Biography
Yoichi Takato is presently associated with Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. He has published numerous research papers and articles in reputed
journals and has various other achievements in the related studies. He has extended his valuable service towards the scientific community with his extensive
research work.
yoichi.takato@oist.jpYoichi Takato et al., J Mat. Sci. 2017, 5:6
DOI: 10.4172/2321-6212-C1-009