Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Graphene-Poly Methyl Methacrylate Nano-Composite

Graphene-polymer nanocomposites have favorable mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. These properties have caused the application of graphene-polymer nanoconnposites to increase in petroleum, automotive, aerospace, electrical power, and medical industries. Synthesis of nanocomposites takes a great deal of cost and time for analyzing their behavior, whereas nanocomposites can be simulated and their behavior can be analyzed using the molecular dynamics method. The parameters affecting the nanocomposites behavior may be optimized via the results obtained. One of the mostly used graphene-polymer nanocomposites is graphene-Poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) nanocomposite. In this paper, behavior of graphene-PMMA nanocomposite is studied under tensile and compressive loads using molecular dynamics simulation.