Recent advances in the mechanics of 2D materials

G Wang, H Hou, Y Yan, R Jagatramka… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The exceptional physical properties and unique layered structure of two-dimensional (2D)
materials have made this class of materials great candidates for applications in electronics …

Intrinsic toughening and stable crack propagation in hexagonal boron nitride

Y Yang, Z Song, G Lu, Q Zhang, B Zhang, B Ni… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
If a bulk material can withstand a high load without any irreversible damage (such as plastic
deformation), it is usually brittle and can fail catastrophically,. This trade-off between strength …

Large elastic deformation and defect tolerance of hexagonal boron nitride monolayers

Y Han, S Feng, K Cao, Y Wang, L Gao, Z Xu… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2020 - cell.com
Monolayer hexagonal boron nitride can serve in optoelectronics or as a dielectric in
graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) electronics due to its ultra-wide band gap. As …

In-plane anisotropic mechanical properties of two-dimensional NbOI2

Y Cui, S Li, X Zhang, X Cao, S Yan, X Zhang… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Two-dimensional niobium oxide diiodide (NbOI 2) has recently attracted extensive attention
due to its highly anisotropic band structures and rich physical characteristics in electronics …

Machine learning mechanical properties of defect-engineered hexagonal boron nitride

Y Shen, S Zhu - Computational Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Defect engineering of 2D materials has exhibited promising potentials for designing new
properties beyond their pristine forms. However, the structure–property mapping for defect …

Effect of the interface on mechanical and fracture properties of lateral graphene/hexagonal boron-nitride heterostructure: A molecular dynamics study

J Singh, R Kumar - Diamond and Related Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Graphene (Gr) and hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) based heterostructures are a unique
class of materials with unique mechanical and electronic properties. In the first of its kind, the …

Fracture and strength of single-atom-thick hexagonal materials

MQ Le - Computational Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The fracture toughness has been theoretically and experimentally estimated for few of
various two-dimensional (2D) materials. Relationship between the fracture toughness and …

A molecular dynamics study of the mechanical properties of the graphene/hexagonal boron nitride planar heterojunction for RRAM

C Ding, Y Dai, F Yang, X Chu - Materials Today Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to their high flexibility and precise interface modulation, resistive random access
memory (RRAM) devices composed of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (Gr/h-BN) planar …

Effects of preexisting cracks on tensile behavior and deformation mechanism of boron nitride nanoribbons: A molecular dynamics investigation

R Rezaei, SMV Allaei - Journal of Materials Research, 2022 - Springer
In the present work, the effects of preexisting cracks on the mechanical behavior and
deformation mechanism of hexagonal boron nitride nanoribbons were investigated based …

Failure of substrate-supported hexagonal boron nitride under complicated loading conditions

J Liu, Y Ma, B Ding, S Wang, L Shao, Y Chen - Mechanics of Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Buckling and fracture are two crucial failure modes of h-BN sheet and establishing the
criterion for the failure modes is the prerequisite to guarantee the proper applications of h …