[gmx-users] Graphene topology file

[Justin Lemkul]

On 7/7/14, 12:36 AM, #SUKRITI GUPTA# wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After getting the topology file for graphene, when i tried to freeze graphene
> and do energy minimization with just water molecules around it, then the
> graphene structure becomes distorted ie. the upper layer of the graphene
> shifts down and the terminal carbons forms bond with each other. I think this
> happens because i did not add terminal hydrogens to the graphene sheet as I
> wanted periodic boundary conditions in x y direction. Also the box size in z
> direction is shown to be zero in the output file of energy minimization. Can
> anyone please let me know how to solve this problem?
>

If the z-dimension is zero, then your box isn't set up properly.  Likely you're 
just getting clashes between periodic images.  Setting up a proper box should 
solve the problem.

-Justin

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