Self-sha** of curved structures, especially those involving flexible thin layers, is attracting
increasing attention because of their broad potential applications in, eg …

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is widely used to produce high-quality, large-area
graphene and two-dimensional (2D) materials at low cost, making them suitable for a wide …

Two-dimensional materials such as graphene and molybdenum disulfide are often subject
to out-of-plane deformation, but its influence on electronic and nanomechanical properties …

Multiscale simulations are used to study the structural relaxation in twisted graphene
bilayers and the associated electron diffraction patterns. The initial twist forms an …

Single asperity friction experiments using atomic force microscopy (AFM) have been
conducted on chemical vapor deposited (CVD) graphene grown on polycrystalline copper …

High-energy lithium battery materials based on conversion/alloying reactions have
tremendous potential applications in new generation energy storage devices. However …

Low temperature and high humidity conditions significantly degrade the performance of
solid-state lubricants consisting of van der Waals (vdW) atomic layers, owing to the liquid …

There is a growing interest in 2D materials-based devices as the replacement for
established materials, such as silicon and metal oxides in microelectronics and sensing …

Wrinkle networks are ubiquitous buckle-induced delaminations in supported graphene,
which locally modify the electronic structure and degrade device performance. Although the …

In a free standing graphene with topological defects, eg heptagons and pentagons, the out-
of-plane wrinkles are generated to release in-plane deformation energy. In this work …