• 文献标题:   Pattern Development and Control of Strained Solitons in Graphene Bilayers
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FENG SZ, XU ZP
  • 作者关键词:   strained soliton, graphene bilayer, pattern formation, commensurateincommensurate transition, tensionshear model, frenkenkontorova model
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04722 EA FEB 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Engineering strain and interlayer registry in 2D crystals have been demonstrated as effective controls of their properties. Separation of domains with different interlayer registries in graphene bilayer has been reported, but the pattern control of strained solitons has not yet been achieved. We show here that, by pulling a graphene bilayer apart, soliton structures with a regularly modulated interlayer registry arise from the competition between elastic deformation in monolayers and local slip at the van der Waals interfaces. The commensurate-incommensurate transition with strain localization is identified as the interlayer overlap exceeds a critical size, where the continuum description of load transfer through the tension-shear chain breaks down. Birth, development and annihilation processes of the strained solitons can be controlled by the loading conditions. The effects of lattice symmetry and mechanical constraints are also discussed, completing the picture for microstructural evolution processes in the homoor heterostructures of 2D crystals.