Mechanical properties of graphene : effects of layer number, temperature and isotope

By Yingyan Zhang, Yuantong T. Gu. 2013

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Herein the mechanical properties of graphene, including Young’s modulus, fracture stress and fracture strain have been investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. The simulation results show that the mechanical properties of graphene are sensitive to the temperature changes but insensitive to the layer numbers in the multilayer graphene. Increasing temperature exerts adverse and significant effects on the mechanical properties of graphene. However, the adverse effect produced by the increasing layer number is marginal. On the other hand, isotope substitutions in graphene play a negligible role in modifying the mechanical properties of graphene.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry

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• A review on the mechanical and thermal properties of graphene and graphene-based polymer nanocomposites: understanding of modelling and MD simulation (2020, methodology): “MD simulations were performed on single and multiple layer graphene and their corresponding nanocomposites [32].”
• Recent advances in chemical modifications of graphene (2015, background): “Mechanically, graphene is a highly robust material, and its mechanical properties, including its Young’s modulus and fracture strength, have been validated by several numerical simulations [72, 73].”