Edge-stress -induced spontaneous twisting of graphene nanoribbons
Ramasubramaniam, A., Koskinen, P., Kit, O., & Shenoy, V. B. (2012). Edge-stress -induced spontaneous twisting of graphene nanoribbons. Journal of Applied Physics, 111 (5). doi:10.1063/1.3689814
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We present a continuum model for spontaneous twisting of graphene nanoribbons driven by
compressive edge stresses. Based on a geometrically nonlinear theory of plates, we identify scaling
laws for the dependence of twist angles on ribbon width. Strikingly, we find the existence of a critical
width below which a ribbon will not undergo spontaneous twisting, preferring an in-plane stretching
mode instead. The model predictions are shown to be in excellent qualitative and quantitative
agreement with density-functional tight-binding simulations. More generally, our model provides a
unifying picture of twisting in graphene nanoribbons with different edge orientations and chemical
functionalizations that have been reported recently in the literature.
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