Journal
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 32, Issue 14, Pages 6078-6084Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01660
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- Basic Research Program through a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science and ICT [2019R1A2C2089785]
- NSF [0969106]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFA0305800]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51772145]
- Distinguished Young Scholars Fund of Jiangsu Province [BK20180003]
- JiangHai Talent program of Nantong
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [0969106] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2019R1A2C2089785] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The mechanical properties of nanomaterials can be strongly affected by their crystal structures and defect configurations. Here, the inplane stiffness of polycrystalline graphene obtained by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) has been investigated by using bulge tests on suspended graphene membranes. In particular, the influence of grain boundaries (GBs) on the in-plane stiffness of graphene membranes was studied by controlling the density of GBs within graphene membranes. The GBs were visualized by sequential growth of C-13- and C-12-graphene along with detection of Raman peak shifts for C-13 and C-12 in graphene, which enabled the nondestructive evaluation of the GB density (defined as the ratio of the total GB length within a graphene membrane to the diameter of the membrane). Single-crystal graphene membranes without any GBs had an average Young's modulus of 0.95 +/- 0.12 TPa (corresponding to an average in- plane stiffness of 318 +/- 40 N/m), comparable to that obtained from mechanically exfoliated graphene. An increased GB density within the membranes softened the graphene membranes, resulting in a lower in-plane stiffness. This phenomenon was most clearly observed when the lateral sizes of grains
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