Structure, energy, and structural transformations of graphene grain boundaries from atomistic simulations

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2306-2317

  Liu, Te Huan ^a,b   Gajewski, Grzegorz ^b   Pao, Chun Wei ^b   Chang, Chien Cheng ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; CARBON ATOMS; COMPLEX MIXTURE; DISLOCATION DENSITIES; EDGE SHARING; GRAIN BOUNDARY MISORIENTATION; GRAIN BOUNDARY STRUCTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARY TRANSFORMATIONS; GROWTH PROCESS; HYBRID MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; OUT OF PLANE BUCKLING; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION; TILT GRAIN BOUNDARY; TRANSITION REGIONS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DEFECTS; EDGE DISLOCATIONS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAPHENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

EID: 79952920650     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.01.063     Document Type: Article

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