[gmx-users] keep the nanotube cylindrical.

[Elton Carvalho]

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Za Pour <za.pour at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear gmx users
> I am simulation a system including carbon nanotube+water.I have done these
> things:
> However as I looked into the nvt.gro I realized that the cylindrical shape
> of carbon nanotube
>  has been changed.I am not sure what I have done is correct or not?and how
> to keep nanotube cylindrical ? any help would be really appreciated.
>       Best regards

I had a similar issue, but I modeled the CNT carbon atoms as opls_147,
trying not to change the parameters too much, so I kept the bond
lengths, angles and force constants untouched.

I noticed that removing the  [ dihedrals ] section from the resulting
topology significantly reduced the tube deformation. Since g_x2top
doesn't generate impropers and a CNT has no rotable bonds, these
dihedrals are spurious, anyway.

Also, do your tubes have open ends? If you can afford to have periodic
tubes, so that the box z length is a multiple of the tube unit cell
and the tube ends are bonded through the box wall, it seems much more
stable.
Or you could try capped tubes.


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Elton Carvalho
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Dept Física dos Materiais e Mecânica
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