A two-class rotation transmission nanobearing driven by gigahertz rotary nanomotor

• Published in: Computational materials science 2018-11, Vol.154, p.97-105
• Main Authors: Qiu, Wei, Shi, Jiao, Cao, Zheng, Zhang, Jicheng, Wei, Ning
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Carbon nanotube; Molecular dynamics; Nanobearing; Nanomotor; Transmission system
• ISSN: 0927-0256; 1879-0801
• DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.07.030

[Display omitted] •A model of two-class rotation transmission nanosystem to adjust the input rotation from nanomotor is presented.•Both CNT rotors in the system can be driven to rotate by a coaxial nanomotor.•When radii differences among the motor and both rotors are between 0.18 nm and 0.34 nm, the system is valid.•Temperature affects the rotation of the two rotors. For a vehicle, its speed can be adjusted via a transmission system. In this study, we propose a model of two-class rotation transmission nanosystem to adjust the input rotation via a gigahertz rotary nanomotor. To obtain an efficient rotation transmission system, carbon nanotubes, which have super-high in-shell strength but extremely low inter-shell friction, are adopted to build the coaxially rotary components. Besides 200 GHz motor, the other two components are the rotor1 in the class-1 nanobearing, and the rotor2 in the class-2 bearing, respectively. Considering both the chirality and radii differences of the rotary components, 27 types of transmission models are built and tested via molecular dynamic simulations. When the transmission ratio of the rotational frequency of the rotor2 and the input frequency is between 0.1 and 0.9, a successful transmission system is obtained. According to the rotation transmission ratios (RTRs) of both rotors in each model, some conclusions are drawn for potential design of such nanodevice. Besides, temperature can also influence the output rotation of the rotor2. It implies another way to adjust the output rotation from the same transmission system.