Measurement of the elastic properties and intrinsic strength of monolayer graphene

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5887, 2008, Pages 385-388

  Lee, Changgu ^a,b   Wei, Xiaoding ^a   Kysar, Jeffrey W ^a,b   Hone, James ^a,b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ELASTIC PROPERTY; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; STIFFNESS; TESTING METHOD; YOUNG MODULUS;

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 47749150628     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1157996     Document Type: Article

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30. We thank S. Berciaud for Raman spectroscopy of the graphene samples, Namiki Inc. for AFM cantilevers, and J. Hay and W. Oliver (MTS Nano Instruments) for useful interactions. We acknowledge support from NSF under awards CHE-0117752, CMMI-0500239, and DMR-0650555; iMINT (Award HR0011-06-1-0048); Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant FA9550-06-1-0214; and New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research. This work used shared experimental facilities supported primarily by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Program of NSF under award DMR-0213574, and the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility, a member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, which is supported by NSF (ECS-0335765).