Mattia Siviero
Assessment of Molecular Dynamics simulations for self-assembly based electronics.
Rel. Mariagrazia Graziano, Gianluca Piccinini, Yuri Ardesi. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Nanotechnologies For Icts (Nanotecnologie Per Le Ict), 2021
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Abstract
As the interest in molecular-scale devices grows, so does the importance of simulation methods capable of investigating the properties of systems of that size. One method is molecular dynamics (MD). It solves a discretization of Newton’s equation of motion on a system of atoms, treated as point particles, provided the initial configuration, the boundary conditions, and a model of the potentials acting on the atoms. This work focuses on the application of molecular dynamics to study the formation of molecular self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). The purpose is to see whether such technology can contribute to the study of systems of interest in the field of molecular electronics.
The study, in particular, provides insights on the behavior of the 6(ferrocenyl)hexanethiol molecule, a molecule composed by a hexane chain terminated with a thiol group on one side and a ferrocene group on the other side
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