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Graphene has been studied in detail due to its mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. It is well documented that the introduction of dopants or defects in the lattice can be used to tune material properties for a specific…
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Disordered systems under applied loading display slow creep flows at finite temperature, which can lead to the material rupture. Renormalization group arguments predicted that creep proceeds via thermal avalanches of activated events.…
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Quantum interfaces between photons and ensembles of atoms have emerged as powerful tools for quantum technologies. A major objective for such interfaces is high fidelity storage and retrieval of a photon in a collective quantum state of…
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We report fast atom diffraction through single-layer graphene using hydrogen atoms at kinetic energies from 150 to 1200 eV. High-resolution images reveal overlapping hexagonal patterns from coexisting monocrystalline domains. Time-of-flight…
A novel concept of membrane process in thermal-driven system is proposed for water desalination. By means of molecular dynamics simulations, we show fast water transport through graphene galleries at a temperature gradient. Water molecules…
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Ripples in pristine freestanding graphene naturally orient themselves in an array that is alternately curved-up and curved-down; maintaining an average height of zero. Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to apply a local force, the…
Graphene, a single atomic layer of covalently bonded carbon atoms, has been investigated intensively for optoelectronics and represents a promising candidate for high-speed electronics. Here we present a microwave mixer constructed as an…
Interfaces have long been known to be the key to many mechanical and electric properties. To nickel base superalloys which have perfect creep and fatigue properties and have been widely used as materials of turbine blades, interfaces…
The thermal conductivity (TC) of isolated graphene with different concentrations of isotopes (C13) is studied with equilibrium molecular dynamics method at 300K. In the limit of pure C12 or C13 graphene, TC of graphene in zigzag and…
Numerical and closed-form analytic expressions for plasmon dispersion relations and rates of dissipation are first obtained at finite-temperatures for free-standing gapped graphene. These closed-system results are generalized to an open…
Imbibition phenomena have been widely used experimentally and theoretically to study the kinetic roughening of interfaces. We critically discuss the existing experiments and some associated theoretical approaches on the scaling properties…
Although surface diffusion is critical for many physical and chemical processes, including the epitaxial growth of crystals and heterogeneous catalysis, it is particularly challenging to directly study. Here, we estimate the carbon adatom…
Using density-functional theory and a tight-binding approach we investigate the physical origin of distinct favourable geometries of adsorbed hydrogen atoms in various graphyne structures, and the relation with electronic properties. In…