Like tiny ships finding port in a storm, carbon atoms dock with the greater island of graphene in a predictable manner. But until recent research by scientists at Rice University, nobody had the tools to make that kind of prediction.
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Graphene rips follow rules
A press release from Rice University Office of Public Affairs / News & Media Relations covers recent work by our group published in Nano Letters:
Rice University simulations show carbon sheets tear along energetically favorable lines
HOUSTON — (Jan. 5, 2012) — Research from Rice University and the University of California at Berkeley may give science and industry a new way to manipulate graphene, the wonder material expected to play a role in advanced electronic, mechanical and thermal applications.