[lammps-users] about carbon nanotube formation

Dear lammps users,

I am a beginner in lammps.I am working in a problem of molecular dynamic simulation of carbon nanotube formation.Is it possible to simulate the mechanism of carbon nanotube formation from a mixture of carbon atoms and nanometal cluster using lammps? If it is possible,which are the potential in lammps i have to use ?please reply me soon.

faithfully,
safron

Dear lammps users,

I am a beginner in lammps.I am working in a problem of molecular dynamic
simulation of carbon nanotube formation.Is it possible to simulate the
mechanism of carbon nanotube formation from a mixture of carbon atoms and
nanometal cluster using lammps? If it is possible,which are the potential in
lammps i have to use ?please reply me soon.

in MD a lot of things are technically possible but they
are not always meaningful and sometimes what is meanigful
is technically not possible. so there is no simple yes/no answer
to your question. you will have to do some research on your
own what level of accuracy you want, what kind of model
provides this and _then_ check whether lammps supports
this model. also, you should compare the time scales of
what typical MD simulations can sustain with what the
experiment you describe is happening on.

axel.