Superlubricity-activated thinning of graphite flakes compressed by passivated crystalline silicon substrates for graphene exfoliation

• Main Authors: Shakouri, Amir, Yeo, Jingjie, Ng, Teng Yong, Liu, Zishun, Taylor, Hayden
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81738; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39655
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A special thinning phenomenon is observed through molecular dynamics, where compression of AB-stacked graphite flakes between two hydrogen-terminated silicon substrates leads to the exfoliation of graphene layers. We have used multiple molecular dynamics simulations to study how this thinning phenom...