Fracture toughness of graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Peng ^a   Ma, Lulu ^a   Fan, Feifei ^b   Zeng, Zhi ^b   Peng, Cheng ^a   Loya, Phillip E ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a,c   Gong, Yongji ^a   Zhang, Jiangnan ^a   Zhang, Xingxiang ^d   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a   Zhu, Ting ^b   Lou, Jun ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d TIANJIN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; POLYMER; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SIMULATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84899819089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4782     Document Type: Article

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