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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 95, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3223783
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- NSF MRSEC [DMR-0819762]
- ARO [W911NNF0610291]
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Graphene features unique electronic, thermal, and mechanical properties, and the flexibility and strong attraction between graphene layers promotes the formation of self-folded nanostructures. Here we study the self-folding of mono- and multilayer graphene sheets, utilizing a coarse-grained hierarchical multiscale model derived directly from atomistic simulation. Our model, developed by enforcing assertion of energy conservation, enables the simulation of graphene folding across a range of length scales from nanometers to micrometers. Through theoretical and simulation analysis we show that the critical self-folded length is pi root C/gamma, where C and gamma are the bending stiffness per unit length and the surface energy per unit length. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3223783]
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