Flexible electronics have recently gained considerable attention due to their potential to
provide new and innovative solutions to a wide range of challenges in various electronic …

Straintronics of two-dimensional (2D) materials offers enormous promise for both
fundamental research and smart technologies. Strain engineering of 2D materials has …

The variegated family of two-dimensional (2D) crystals has developed rapidly since the
isolation of its forerunner: Graphene. Their plane-confined nature is typically associated with …

The formation of gas-filled bubbles on the surface of van der Waals crystals provides an
ideal platform whereby the interplay of the elastic parameters and interlayer forces can be …

Strain engineering has arisen as a powerful technique to tune the electronic and optical
properties of two-dimensional semiconductors like molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2). Although …

Conventionally, tuning materials' properties can be done through strategies such as
alloying, do**, defect engineering, and phase engineering, while in fact mechanical …

When 2D materials are supported by substrates, matter trapped at the interface can
coalesce to form nano-and microscale bubbles. These bubbles often negatively impact the …

Measurement of in-plane elasticity of thin sheets often leverages out-of-plane poking or
bulging, also known as indentation or bulge tests. For linear elastic sheets, a load-cubic …

Strain plays an important role for the optical properties of monolayer transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDCs). Here, we investigate strain effects in a monolayer MoSe2 sample …

In this work we consider bubbles that can form spontaneously when a two-dimensional (2D)
crystal is transferred to a substrate with gases or liquids trapped at the crystal–substrate …