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Irreversibility in response to forces acting on graphene sheets
, Article Physical Review Letters ; Volume 104, Issue 19 , May , 2010 ; 00319007 (ISSN) ; Asgari, R ; Tabar, M. R. R ; Sharif University of Technology
2010
Abstract
The amount of rippling in graphene sheets is related to the interactions with the substrate or with the suspending structure. Here, we report on an irreversibility in the response to forces that act on suspended graphene sheets. This may explain why one always observes a ripple structure on suspended graphene. We show that a compression-relaxation mechanism produces static ripples on graphene sheets and determine a peculiar temperature Tc, such that for T