Use este identificador para citar ou linkar para este item: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/55988
Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Apparent softening of wet graphene membranes on a microfluidic platform
Autor(es): Gustavo Arrighi Ferrari
Bernardo Ruegger Almeida Neves
Rodrigo Gribel Lacerda
Alan Barros de Oliveira
Ive Silvestre de Almeida
Matheus Josué de Souza Matos
Ronaldo Junio Campos Batista
Thales Fernando Damasceno Fernandes
Leonel Muniz Meireles
Eliel Gomes da Silva Neto
Helio Chacham
Resumo: Graphene is regarded as the toughest two-dimensional material (highest in-plane elastic properties) and, as a consequence, it has been employed/proposed as an ultrathin membrane in a myriad of microfluidic devices. Yet, an experimental investigation of eventual variations on the apparent elastic properties of a suspended graphene membrane in contact with air or water is still missing. In this work, the mechanical response of suspended monolayer graphene membranes on a microfluidic platform is investigated via scanning probe microscopy experiments. A high elastic modulus is measured for the membrane when the platform is filled with air, as expected. However, a significant apparent softening of graphene is observed when water fills the microfluidic system. Through molecular dynamics simulations and a phenomenological model, we associate such softening to a water-induced uncrumpling process of the suspended graphene membrane. This result may bring substantial modifications on the design and operation of microfluidic devices which exploit pressure application on graphene membranes.
Assunto: Grafeno
Propriedades mecânicas
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Instituição: UFMG
Departamento: ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA
Tipo de Acesso: Acesso Restrito
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b08841
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/55988
Data do documento: 2018
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.7b08841
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: ACS Nano
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