Abstract
The initiation and development of wrinkles in a single layer graphene sheet subjected to in-plane shear displacements are investigated. The dependence of the wavelength and amplitude of wrinkles on the applied shear displacements is explicitly obtained with molecular mechanics simulations. A continuum model is developed for the characteristics of the wrinkles which show that the wrinkle wavelength decreases with an increase in shear loading, while the amplitude of the wrinkles is found to initially increase and then become stable. The propagation and growth process of the wrinkles in the sheet is elucidated. It is expected that the research could promote applications of graphenes in the transportation of biological systems, separation science, and the development of the fluidic electronics. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3107-3112 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Carbon |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: W.H.D. thanks the financial support from the Australia Research Council and the instructive discussion on wrinkling theories with Dr. Quan Long (Joint Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Texas at Austin and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology). Q. W. thanks the financial support from the Canada Research Chairs Program (CRC) and the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.