Polymer nanocomposites reinforced with carbon-based nanofillers are gaining increasing
interest for a number of applications due to their excellent properties. The understanding of …

Distinctive from their 1D and 0D counterparts, 2D nanomaterials (2DNs) exhibit surface
corrugations (wrinkles and ripples) and crumples. Thermal vibrations, edge instabilities …

The three different sized chemical functionalized graphene (GO) sheets, namely GO-1 (D
50= 10.79 μm), GO-2 (D 50= 1.72 μm) and GO-3 (D 50= 0.70 μm), were used to fabricate a …

Understanding how the mechanical behaviour of materials deviates at the nanoscale from
the macroscopically established concepts is a key challenge of particular importance for …

Graphene is a single carbon layer of zero bandgap without edges and basal plane
fluctuations. Engineering such infinite plane structure to finite size or appropriate structure …

This work demonstrates an attractive low-cost route to obtain large area and high-quality
graphene films by using the ultra-smooth copper foils which are typically used as the …

The super-high strength of single-layer graphene has attracted great interest. In practice,
defects resulting from thermodynamics or introduced by fabrication, naturally or artificially …

We show that when the pseudomagnetic fields created by long-wavelength deformations
are appropriately coupled with a scalar electric potential, a significant energy gap can …

Structure prediction of stable and metastable polymorphs of chemical systems in low
dimensions has become an important field, since materials that are patterned on the nano …

The friction between a molybdenum disulphide (MoS 2) nanoflake and a MoS 2 substrate
was analyzed using a modified Tomlinson model based on atomistic force fields. The …