• 文献标题:   On the Fracture of Supported Graphene Under Pressure
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SONG ZG, XU ZP, HUANG XL, KIM JY, ZHENG QS
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, fracture, nanohole, gas separation, water filtration
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICSTRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
  • ISSN:   0021-8936 EI 1528-9036
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tsinghua Univ
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1115/1.4024198
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

We explore here the structural stability and fracture of supported graphene sheets under pressure loadings normal to the sheets by performing molecular dynamics simulations. The results show that, in absence of defects, supported graphene deforms into an inverse bubble shape and fracture is nucleated at the supported edges. The critical pressure decreases from ideal tensile strength of graphene in biaxial tension as the size of supporting pores increases. When nanoscale holes are created in the suspended region of graphene, the critical pressure is further lowered with the area of nanoholes, with additional dependence on their shapes. The results are explained by analyzing the deformed profile of graphene sheets under pressure and the stress state.