{
  "id": "1109.5962",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2011-09-27T16:37:59.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-09-27T16:37:59.000Z",
  "title": "Observation of a Snap-Through Instability in Graphene",
  "authors": [
    "Scott Scharfenberg",
    "Nikhita Mansukhani",
    "Cesar Chialvo",
    "Richard L. Weaver",
    "Nadya Mason"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 3 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
  ],
  "abstract": "We examine the competition between adhesive and bending energies for few-layered graphene samples placed on rigid, microscale-corrugated substrates. Using atomic force microscopy, we show that the graphene undergoes a sharp \"snap-through\" transition as a function of layer thickness, where the material transitions between conforming to the substrate and lying flat on top of the substrate. By utilizing the critical snap-through thickness in an elasticity model for the FLG's bending, we extract a value for graphene-surface adhesion energy that is larger than expected for van der Waals forces.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2011-09-27T16:37:59.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "68.65.Pq",
      "68.35.Md",
      "68.35.Np",
      "68.55.-a",
      "68.60.Wm",
      "62.20.F-"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "snap-through instability",
      "observation",
      "van der waals forces",
      "graphene-surface adhesion energy",
      "atomic force microscopy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1063/1.3676059",
      "journal": "Applied Physics Letters",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Jan",
      "volume": 100,
      "number": 2,
      "pages": "021910"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012ApPhL.100b1910S"
    }
  }
}