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In the letter "Phys. Rev. Lett 104, 196804 (2010)" the compression-relaxation mechanism (CRM) for a graphene sheet (GS) was reported to be irreversible and resulted in static ripples on GS, such that for T <Tc the free-energy of the rippled…
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