On the failure load and mechanism of polycrystalline graphene by nanoindentation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sha, Z D ^a   Wan, Q ^b   Pei, Q X ^c   Quek, S S ^c   Liu, Z S ^a   Zhang, Y W ^c   Shenoy, V B ^d  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84921727220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07437     Document Type: Article

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