Image of the Week - 30 August 2001

MD Simulation Analysis of Non-planar Graphitic Structures

This theoretical study confirms the belief that graphite, beyond the planar stage (upper), forms a variety of curved surfaces from arched edge planes (center) to nanotubes (bottom). Similarities between a sleeve formed at the edge of graphite and an armchair single-wall carbon nanotube can be clearly seen. (The background is a TEM image of a GPC edge).
The simulation was perfomed in Cerius2, while the background TEM image is courtesy of Y. Gogotsi at Drexel University. The composite image was prepared in Maya and Photoshop.

Image Courtesy: Slava Rotkin, Y. Gogotsi, Ben Grosser, Janet Sinn-Hanlon

Contact: rotkin@uiuc.edu, grosser@uiuc.edu, j-sinn@uiuc.edu, gogotsi@drexel.edu