Research Article

Interfacial Characteristics of Carbon Nanotube-Polyethylene Composites Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Table 1

Simulation sizes for different configurations. 𝑙 𝑥 , 𝑙 𝑦 and 𝑙 𝑧 are the length of the simulation box in 𝑥 , 𝑦 and 𝑧 directions.

Simulation samplesSimulation box size = lx*ly*lz3)

PE: 200 chains, 100 mpc, CNT (10, 10)60.8 × 76.3 × 120.4
PE: 1000 chains, 100 mpc, CNT (10, 10)144.4 × 135.6 × 140.8
PE: 100 chains, 200 mpc, CNT (10, 10)96.3 × 68.1 × 85.3
PE: 500 chains, 200 mpc, CNT (10, 10)134.2 × 142.2 × 142.9
PE: 67 chains, 300 mpc, CNT (10, 10)81.0 × 80.8 × 84.9
PE: 333 chains, 300 mpc, CNT (10, 10)134.3 × 139.6 × 144.7