Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

High density mechanical energy storage with carbon nanothread bundle

  • Haifei Zhan,
  • Gang Zhang,
  • John M. Bell,
  • Vincent B. C. Tan,
  • Yuantong Gu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15807-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Carbon nanothreads are promising for applications in mechanical energy storage and energy harvesting. Here the authors use large-scale molecular dynamics simulations and continuum elasticity theory to explore mechanical energy storage in carbon nanothreads-based bundles.