Short pyridine-furan springs exhibit bistable dynamics of Duffing oscillators

Abstract

The intensive development of nanodevices acting as two-state systems has motivated the search for nanoscale molecular structures whose dynamics are similar to those of bistable mechanical systems, such as Euler arches and Duffing oscillators. Of particular interest are the molecular structures capable of spontaneous vibrations and stochastic resonance. Recently, oligomeric molecules that were a few nanometers in size and exhibited the bistable dynamics of an Euler arch were identified through molecular dynamics simulations of short fragments of thermo-responsive polymers subject to force loading. In this article, we present molecular dynamics simulations of short pyridine-furan springs a few nanometers in size and demonstrated the bistable dynamics of a Duffing oscillator with thermally-activated spontaneous vibrations and stochastic resonance.

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