Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Chemically modified graphene films with tunable negative Poisson’s ratios

  • Yeye Wen,
  • Enlai Gao,
  • Zhenxing Hu,
  • Tingge Xu,
  • Hongbing Lu,
  • Zhiping Xu,
  • Chun Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10361-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Negative Poisson’s ratio, offering unusual properties, is displayed by several materials and predicted for graphene. This work demonstrates such behaviors in monolithic films with interconnected networks of close-packed graphene laminates, and tunability through the chemistry and microstructures.