Novel effects of strains in graphene and other two dimensional materials

B Amorim, A Cortijo, F De Juan, AG Grushin, F Guinea… - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The analysis of the electronic properties of strained or lattice deformed graphene combines
ideas from classical condensed matter physics, soft matter, and geometrical aspects of …

Mechanical properties of graphene

YW Sun, DG Papageorgiou, CJ Humphreys… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reviews the mechanical properties of graphene with particular attention to what is
established and what is still uncertain. It clarifies the thickness and the elastic constants, and …

Proton transport through nanoscale corrugations in two-dimensional crystals

OJ Wahab, E Daviddi, B Xin, PZ Sun, E Griffin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Defect-free graphene is impermeable to all atoms,,,–and ions, under ambient conditions.
Experiments that can resolve gas flows of a few atoms per hour through micrometre-sized …

Unexpected catalytic activity of nanorippled graphene

PZ Sun, WQ Xiong, A Bera, I Timokhin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Graphite is one of the most chemically inert materials. Its elementary constituent, monolayer
graphene, is generally expected to inherit most of the parent material's properties including …

Fast diffusion of water nanodroplets on graphene

M Ma, G Tocci, A Michaelides, G Aeppli - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
Diffusion across surfaces generally involves motion on a vibrating but otherwise stationary
substrate. Here, using molecular dynamics, we show that a layered material such as …

Thermomechanics of monolayer graphene: Rippling, thermal expansion and elasticity

W Gao, R Huang - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2014 - Elsevier
Thermomechanical properties of monolayer graphene with thermal fluctuation are studied
by both statistical mechanics analysis and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. While the …

Scaling behavior and strain dependence of in-plane elastic properties of graphene

JH Los, A Fasolino, MI Katsnelson - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We show by atomistic simulations that, in the thermodynamic limit, the in-plane elastic
moduli of graphene at finite temperature vanish with system size L as a power law L-η u with …

Introduction, production, characterization and applications of defects in graphene

W Ahmad, Z Ullah, NI Sonil, K Khan - Journal of Materials Science …, 2021 - Springer
The successful preparation of graphene in research laboratory has brought a revolutionary
progress in almost all the research fields including physical, chemical and biological …

Unusual ultra-low-frequency fluctuations in freestanding graphene

P Xu, M Neek-Amal, SD Barber, JK Schoelz… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Intrinsic ripples in freestanding graphene have been exceedingly difficult to study. Individual
ripple geometry was recently imaged using scanning tunnelling microscopy, but these …

Electron transfer kinetics on natural crystals of MoS 2 and graphite

M Velický, MA Bissett, PS Toth, HV Patten… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Here, we evaluate the electrochemical performance of sparsely studied natural crystals of
molybdenite and graphite, which have increasingly been used for fabrication of next …