The rise of twistronics has increased the attention of the community to the twist-angle-
dependent properties of two-dimensional van der Waals integrated architectures …

Graphene is the stiffest material known so far but, due to its one-atom thickness, it is also
very bendable. Consequently, free-standing graphene exhibit ripples that has major effects …

Although 2D materials hold great potential for next-generation pressure sensors, recent
studies revealed that gases permeate along the membrane-surface interface, necessitating …

The performance of electronic and optoelectronic devices is dominated by charge carrier
injection through the metal–semiconductor contacts. Therefore, creating low-resistance …

Being of atomic thickness, graphene is the thinnest imaginable membrane. While
graphene's basal plane is highly impermeable at the molecular level, the impermeability is …

Despite the proven impermeability of graphene toward most standard gases,
graphene/graphite sealed SiO 2 cavities always exhibit a nonzero leak rate, and the …

Using a scanning electron microscope, we irradiate graphene drums with electrons at an
energy of 20 keV and a dosage of about 1.58× 10 17 electrons/cm 2. The drums consist of …

All polymers exhibit gas permeability through the free volume of entangled polymer chains.
However, two-dimensional (2D) materials including graphene stack densely and can exhibit …

Semi-permeable membranes are important elements in water purification and energy
generation applications, for which the atomic thickness and strength of graphene can …

The ubiquity of thin elastic materials in biology and engineering has motivated the
development of many reduced models to describe their elastic deformation. This thesis is …