This paper reviews the mechanical properties of graphene with particular attention to what is
established and what is still uncertain. It clarifies the thickness and the elastic constants, and …

Insight into the mechanical characteristics of nanoscopic structures is of fundamental interest
and indeed poses a great challenge to the research communities around the world. These …

Young's modulus and the thickness of single wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) obtained from
prior atomistic studies are largely scattered. In this paper we establish an analytic approach …

Graphene-based paper materials attract particular interests recently owing to their
outstanding properties, the key of which is their layer-by-layer hierarchical structures similar …

The emergence of the field of nanofluidics in the last decade has led to the development of
important applications including water desalination, ultrafiltration and osmotic energy …

We derive, from an empirical interaction potential, an analytic formula for the elastic bending
modulus of single-layer MoS 2 (SLMoS 2). By using this approach, we do not need to define …

Graphene features a two-dimensional structure, where applications from electronic building
blocks to reinforced composites are emerging, enabled through the utilization of its intriguing …

Nanoindentation has been widely adopted for mechanical properties characterization of two-
dimensional (2D) materials, where one typically starts with measuring the indentation load …

With the miniaturization of a solid, effects of surface strain and quantum trapping become
increasingly important in determining its properties. As a result, low-dimensional materials …

An elastic-shell-based theory for calculating the thermal conductance of graphene ribbons of
arbitrary width w is presented. The analysis of vibrational modes of a continuum thin plate …