Issue 3, 2020

Tunable bending modulus and bending limit of oxidized graphene

Abstract

Graphene is highly flexible and widely used in flexible devices. However, is the oxidized graphene more flexible than graphene? This is still under debate between simulations and experiments. By employing density functional theory calculations, we show that the bending modulus of oxidized graphene is quite tunable by changing the type and coverage of the functional groups, as well as the bending direction. The hydroxyl increases the bending modulus of graphene, but epoxide can degrade the bending modulus in the armchair bending direction, making the oxidized graphene more flexible than graphene. On the other hand, there exists a curvature limit during bending the oxidized graphene, where O⋯H hydrogen bonds start to transform into O–H covalent bonds. Generally, our results demonstrate the effects of the functional groups and bending direction on the flexibility of oxidized graphene, which should be helpful to design graphene-based flexible devices.

Graphical abstract: Tunable bending modulus and bending limit of oxidized graphene

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 Aug 2019
Accepted
11 Dec 2019
First published
13 Dec 2019

Nanoscale, 2020,12, 1623-1628

Tunable bending modulus and bending limit of oxidized graphene

L. Liu, X. Li, Z. Liu, S. Dai, X. Huang and J. Zhao, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 1623 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR07282A

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