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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Van der Waals interaction affects wrinkle formation in two-dimensional materials.

Pablo Ares, Yi Bo Wang, Colin R Woods, James Dougherty, Laura Fumagalli, Francisco Guinea, Benny Davidovitch, Kostya S Novoselov

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.

Pablo AresDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, United Kingdom; pableras.ares@gmail.com bdavidov@umass.edu kostya@nus.edu.sg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5905-540X
Yi Bo WangDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, United Kingdom.
Colin R WoodsDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, United Kingdom.
James DoughertyDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, United Kingdom.
Laura FumagalliDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1749-2905
Francisco GuineaIMDEA (Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados) Nanoscience, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
Benny DavidovitchDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003; pableras.ares@gmail.com bdavidov@umass.edu kostya@nus.edu.sg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6049-6085
Kostya S NovoselovDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL Manchester, United Kingdom; pableras.ares@gmail.com bdavidov@umass.edu kostya@nus.edu.sg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4972-5371
University of Manchester · GBIkerbasque · ESNational University of Singapore · SGUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nonlinear mechanics of solids is an exciting field that encompasses both beautiful mathematics, such as the emergence of instabilities and the formation of complex patterns, as well as multiple applications. Two-dimensional crystals and van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures allow revisiting this field on the atomic level, allowing much finer control over the parameters and offering atomistic interpretation of experimental observations. In this work, we consider the formation of instabilities consisting of radially oriented wrinkles around mono- and few-layer "bubbles" in two-dimensional vdW heterostructures. Interestingly, the shape and wavelength of the wrinkles depend not only on the thickness of the two-dimensional crystal forming the bubble, but also on the atomistic structure of the interface between the bubble and the substrate, which can be controlled by their relative orientation. We argue that the periodic nature of these patterns emanates from an energetic balance between the resistance of the top membrane to bending, which favors large wavelength of wrinkles, and the membrane-substrate vdW attraction, which favors small wrinkle amplitude. Employing the classical "Winkler foundation" model of elasticity theory, we show that the number of radial wrinkles conveys a valuable relationship between the bending rigidity of the top membrane and the strength of the vdW interaction. Armed with this relationship, we use our data to demonstrate a nontrivial dependence of the bending rigidity on the number of layers in the top membrane, which shows two different regimes driven by slippage between the layers, and a high sensitivity of the vdW force to the alignment between the substrate and the membrane.

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PMID33790019
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