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Registry-Dependent Peeling of Layered Material Interfaces: The Case of Graphene Nanoribbons on Hexagonal Boron Nitride.

ABSTRACT: Peeling of layered materials from supporting substrates, which is central for exfoliation and transfer processes, is found to be dominated by lattice commensurability effects in both low and high velocity limits. For a graphene nanoribbon atop a hexagonal boron nitride surface, the microscopic peeling behavior ranges from stick-slip, through smooth-sliding, to pure peeling regimes, depending on the relative orientation of the contacting surfaces and the peeling angle. The underlying mechanisms stem from the intimate relation between interfacial registry, interlayer interactions, and friction. This, in turn, allows for devising simple models for extracting the interfacial adhesion energy from the peeling force traces.

SUBMITTER: Ouyang W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8488940 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Registry-Dependent Peeling of Layered Material Interfaces: The Case of Graphene Nanoribbons on Hexagonal Boron Nitride.

Ouyang Wengen W Hod Oded O Urbakh Michael M

ACS applied materials & interfaces 20210905 36

Peeling of layered materials from supporting substrates, which is central for exfoliation and transfer processes, is found to be dominated by lattice commensurability effects in both low and high velocity limits. For a graphene nanoribbon atop a hexagonal boron nitride surface, the microscopic peeling behavior ranges from stick-slip, through smooth-sliding, to pure peeling regimes, depending on the relative orientation of the contacting surfaces and the peeling angle. The underlying mechanisms s ...[more]

PMID: 34486375

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