Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 833-839Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04577
Keywords
crazing; stress concentrations; debonding; interfaces; pull-out
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- Royce equipment recurrent grant [EP/R00661X/1]
- EU Graphene Flagship Core 3 [881603]
- EPSRC [EP/P025021/1, EP/S019367/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The study demonstrates that mono-/few-layer graphene are good candidates for strain sensing with high spatial resolution to evaluate features <100 nm. The sensors can monitor the initiation and evolution of crazes, and enable evaluation of high local strain in graphene.
Graphene has been studied extensively for use in flexible electronics as ultrasensitive and wide-area strain sensors. Many sensors demonstrated so far rely on graphene networks, such that the spatial resolution is compromised, and they are unable to measure strain variations on a fine scale such as those resulting from substrate/interface failure. In this study, mono-/few-layer graphene are demonstrated to be good candidates for strain sensing with high spatial resolution to evaluate features <100 nm. The fundamentals of strain sensing-interaction with the target-have been discussed to shed light on the sensitivity and durability for future sensor fabrication. The proof-of-concept strain sensors have been shown to be able to monitor different states, e.g., the initiation and evolution, of crazes. The analysis also leads to the evaluation of interfacial energy and realization of high local strain in graphene that is applicable for other 2D materials for ultrasensitive strain sensing and bandgap opening applications.
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