Geometrical effect ‘stiffens’ graphene membrane at finite vacancy concentrations
| Autor: | Zhi Ping Xu, Zhigong Song |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Materials science
Bioengineering Nanotechnology 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences law.invention law Vacancy defect 0103 physical sciences medicine Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) 010306 general physics Engineering (miscellaneous) Softening Graphene Mechanical Engineering Stiffness Nanoindentation 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Crystallographic defect Stiffening Membrane Mechanics of Materials Chemical physics medicine.symptom 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | Extreme Mechanics Letters. 6:82-87 |
| ISSN: | 2352-4316 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eml.2015.12.010 |
| Popis: | The presence of defects not only modifies the stiffness and strength of materials, but also changes their morphologies. The latter effect is extremely significant for low-dimensional materials such as graphene. We show in this work that graphene swells while point defects such as mono-vacancies are created at finite concentrations. The distorted geometry resulted from this areal expansion, in combination with the in-plane softening effect, predicts an unusual defect concentration dependence of stiffness measured for supported graphene membrane in nanoindentation tests, which leads to a defect-induced stiffening phenomenon. The mechanism is elucidated through an analytical membrane model as well as numerical simulations at atomistic and continuum levels. In addition to elucidate the counter-intuitive observations in experiments and computer simulations, our findings also highlight the role of defect-modulated morphology engineering that can be applied to design nanoscale material and structural applications. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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