The relationship between nanoparticle characteristics, materials properties and the method of handling/processing
Understanding the formation, behaviour and performance of particles down to the nano-scale is a challenge for scientists and researchers worldwide. Computational methods that bridge molecular dynamics (MD) and granular dynamics (GD) play a very important role in this area. One effort of our work in 2007 was to model the agglomeration of particles due to cohesive forces, a common phenomenon in many processes. It aims to study the agglomerate formation and structural properties by means of GD simulation, with special reference to the role of inter-particle cohesion, which is directly related to particle size.
