“The Princess and the Pea” at the Nanoscale: Wrinkling and Delamination of Graphene on Nanoparticles
Thin membranes exhibit complex responses to external forces or geometrical constraints. A familiar example is the wrinkling, exhibited by human skin, plant leaves, and fabrics, that results from the relative ease of bending versus stretching. Here, we study the wrinkling of graphene, the thinnest an...
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| author | Mahito Yamamoto Olivier Pierre-Louis Jia Huang Michael S. Fuhrer Theodore L. Einstein William G. Cullen |
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| description | Thin membranes exhibit complex responses to external forces or geometrical constraints. A familiar example is the wrinkling, exhibited by human skin, plant leaves, and fabrics, that results from the relative ease of bending versus stretching. Here, we study the wrinkling of graphene, the thinnest and stiffest known membrane, deposited on a silica substrate decorated with silica nanoparticles. At small nanoparticle density, monolayer graphene adheres to the substrate, detached only in small regions around the nanoparticles. With increasing nanoparticle density, we observe the formation of wrinkles which connect nanoparticles. Above a critical nanoparticle density, the wrinkles form a percolating network through the sample. As the graphene membrane is made thicker, global delamination from the substrate is observed. The observations can be well understood within a continuum-elastic model and have important implications for strain-engineering the electronic properties of graphene. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c2ac9ac76c804185a3e0d83b85f400ff2022-12-21T23:11:33ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review X2160-33082012-12-012404101810.1103/PhysRevX.2.041018“The Princess and the Pea” at the Nanoscale: Wrinkling and Delamination of Graphene on NanoparticlesMahito YamamotoOlivier Pierre-LouisJia HuangMichael S. FuhrerTheodore L. EinsteinWilliam G. CullenThin membranes exhibit complex responses to external forces or geometrical constraints. A familiar example is the wrinkling, exhibited by human skin, plant leaves, and fabrics, that results from the relative ease of bending versus stretching. Here, we study the wrinkling of graphene, the thinnest and stiffest known membrane, deposited on a silica substrate decorated with silica nanoparticles. At small nanoparticle density, monolayer graphene adheres to the substrate, detached only in small regions around the nanoparticles. With increasing nanoparticle density, we observe the formation of wrinkles which connect nanoparticles. Above a critical nanoparticle density, the wrinkles form a percolating network through the sample. As the graphene membrane is made thicker, global delamination from the substrate is observed. The observations can be well understood within a continuum-elastic model and have important implications for strain-engineering the electronic properties of graphene.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041018 |
| spellingShingle | Mahito Yamamoto Olivier Pierre-Louis Jia Huang Michael S. Fuhrer Theodore L. Einstein William G. Cullen “The Princess and the Pea” at the Nanoscale: Wrinkling and Delamination of Graphene on Nanoparticles Physical Review X |
| title | “The Princess and the Pea” at the Nanoscale: Wrinkling and Delamination of Graphene on Nanoparticles |
| title_full | “The Princess and the Pea” at the Nanoscale: Wrinkling and Delamination of Graphene on Nanoparticles |
| title_fullStr | “The Princess and the Pea” at the Nanoscale: Wrinkling and Delamination of Graphene on Nanoparticles |
| title_full_unstemmed | “The Princess and the Pea” at the Nanoscale: Wrinkling and Delamination of Graphene on Nanoparticles |
| title_short | “The Princess and the Pea” at the Nanoscale: Wrinkling and Delamination of Graphene on Nanoparticles |
| title_sort | the princess and the pea at the nanoscale wrinkling and delamination of graphene on nanoparticles |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041018 |
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