Estimating the elastic properties of few-layer graphene from the free-standing indentation response

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 25, Issue 47, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Lixin ^a   Wang, Yugang ^a   Cao, Guoxin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELASTIC PROPERTIES; INDENTATION ANALYSIS; INTERLAYER INTERACTIONS; LOAD DISPLACEMENTS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS SIMULATION; NON-LINEAR ELASTIC BEHAVIOR; NONLINEAR ELASTICS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTION;

ELASTICITY; GRAPHENE; INDENTATION; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

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EID: 84887107708     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/25/47/475301     Document Type: Article

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