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MECHANICS

Motion of nanotubes in an air medium under the influence of an electromagnetic field

M. A. Bubenchikov

Tomsk State University

Abstract: The dynamics of nanotubes as homogeneous unstrained structures possessing their own magnetic moment due to presence of intercalated iron is described in the paper. The resistance force conditioned by air molecule impact on the concerned particle was determined. An asymptotically exact solution of the problem of nanotube motion in a medium with resistance was constructed. Rotation of a tube around the center of inertia was studied numerically in the case when the initial orientation of the tube does not coincide with the direction of the external magnetic field vector.

Keywords: nanotube, intercalated iron, intrinsic magnetic moment, moment of inertia of a carbonic crystal structure, resistance of tube in a gaseous medium.

UDC: 612.13


Accepted: September 6, 2010