Self-organizing Behavior of Y-junctions of Graphene Nanoribbons

Abstract

With the help of our molecular dynamics simulation we want to motivate emerging and development of technological methods for building of carbon nanostructure networks. We shall study self-organizing behaviors of graphene nanoribbons in Y-junctions. We determine the conditions for perfect formation of nanotube Yjunctions from parallel nanoribbons. The role of graphene nanolithography in nanoribbon network and nanotube network production is studied. Our simulations show the possibility of nanotube network realization as well.