Twisted and coiled ultralong multilayer graphene ribbons

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Cranford, Steven ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; CONFORMATIONAL BEHAVIOR; CONTINUUM MODEL; DISCRETE ROTATIONS; EFFECTIVE PROPERTY; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; ELASTIC STRAIN ENERGY; GRAPHENE LAYERS; GRAPHENE SHEETS; HIERARCHICAL MATERIALS; INTENSIVE RESEARCH; INTRAMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MESOSCOPIC MODELS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; NANORIBBONS; OUT-OF-PLANE BENDING; SINGLE LAYER; STABLE CONFIGURATION; SURFACE ADHESION; THERMAL APPLICATIONS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MULTILAYERS; ROTATION; STRAIN; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 79960461281     PISSN: 09650393     EISSN: 1361651X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/19/5/054003     Document Type: Article

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