Mechanical properties of bilayer graphene sheets coupled by sp3 bonding

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4511-4517

  Zhang, Y Y ^a   Wang, C M ^b   Cheng, Y ^c   Xiang, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; GRAPHENE SHEETS; INTERLAYER SHEAR; LOAD TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION RESULT; STRENGTHENING EFFECT; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; GRAPHENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STRENGTHENING (METAL);

TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 79961026874     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.06.058     Document Type: Article

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