Graphene nanocutting through nanopatterned vacancy defects

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 354-359

  Jack, Rhonda ^a,b   Sen, Dipanjan ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fracture; Graphene; Materials Failure; Nanoengineering; Reactive force field; ReaxFF; Vacancy

Indexed keywords

2D STRUCTURES; ATOMIC VACANCIES; ATOMISTIC DEFECTS; COMPUTATIONAL NANOENGINEERING; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FRACTURE SURFACES; GRAPHENE SHEETS; MATERIALS FAILURE; NANO SCALE; NANO-ENGINEERING; REACTIVE FORCE FIELD; REAXFF; TENSILE LOADS; VACANCY DEFECTS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VACANCIES;

FRACTURE;

EID: 77954947765     PISSN: 15461955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jctn.2010.1366     Document Type: Article

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