Elastic straining of free-standing monolayer graphene

The extraordinary mechanical properties of graphene are usually measured on very small or supported samples. Here, the authors develop a method to test a large area of graphene and show that even with edge defects it displays near-ideal mechanical performance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ke Cao, Shizhe Feng, Ying Han, Libo Gao, Thuc Hue Ly, Zhiping Xu, Yang Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14130-0