• 文献标题:   Transformation between divacancy defects induced by an energy pulse in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   XIA J, LIU XY, ZHOU W, WANG FC, WU HA
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, defect, transformation, reversibility
  • 出版物名称:   NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0957-4484 EI 1361-6528
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Sci Technol China
  • 被引频次:   16
  • DOI:   10.1088/0957-4484/27/27/274004
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

The mutual transformations among the four typical divacancy defects induced by a high-energy pulse were studied via molecular dynamics simulation. Our study revealed all six possible mutual transformations and found that defects transformed by absorbing energy to overcome the energy barrier with bonding, debonding, and bond rotations. The reversibility of defect transformations was also investigated by potential energy analysis. The energy difference was found to greatly influence the transformation reversibility. The direct transformation path was irreversible if the energy difference was too large. We also studied the correlation between the transformation probability and the input energy. It was found that the transformation probability had a local maxima at an optimal input energy. The introduction of defects and their structural evolutions are important for tailoring the exceptional properties and thereby performances of graphene-based devices, such as nanoporous membranes for the filtration and desalination of water.