• 文献标题:   Ordered and layered structure of liquid nitromethane within a graphene bilayer: toward stabilization of energetic materials through nanoscale confinement
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIU YZ, YU T, LAI WP, KANG Y, GE ZX
  • 作者关键词:   encapsulation, dipoledipole interaction, thermal stability, molecular dynamics simulation, density functional theory calculation
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING
  • ISSN:   1610-2940 EI 0948-5023
  • 通讯作者地址:   Xian Modern Chem Res Inst
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1007/s00894-015-2588-2
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

The structural characteristics involving thermal stabilities of liquid nitromethane (NM)-one of the simplest energetic materials-confined within a graphene (GRA) bilayer were investigated by means of all-atom molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculations. The results show that ordered and layered structures are formed at the confinement of the GRA bilayer induced by the van der Waals attractions of NM with GRA and the dipole-dipole interactions of NM, which is strongly dependent on the confinement size, i.e., the GRA bilayer distance. These unique intermolecular arrangements and preferred orientations of confined NM lead to higher stabilities than bulk NM revealed by bond dissociation energy calculations.