Abstract: Directional motion plays a crucial role in various mechanical systems. Although mechanisms for nanoscale directional motion have been widely used in many aspects of nanotechnology, it remains a great challenge to generate ...

Abstract: Temperatureand stiffnessdependent edge forces offer new mechanisms of designing nanodevices driven by temperature and stiffness gradients. Here, we investigate the edge forces in a graphene nanolayer on a spring supported ...

Abstract: Intrinsic driving mechanism is of particular significance to nanoscale mass delivery and device design. Stiffness gradient-driven directional motion, i.e., nanodurotaxis, provides an intrinsic driving mechanism, but an ...

Abstract: The interlayer attraction force between concentric carbon nanotubes (CNTs) plays an important role in CNT-based nanodevices. However, the precise measurement of the interlayer attraction force remains to date a challenge. ...