Tunable negative Poisson's ratio in hydrogenated graphene

Jin-Wu Jiang1, Tienchong Chang, Xingming Guo

  • 1Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mechanics in Energy Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, People's Republic of China. jwjiang5918@hotmail.com.

Nanoscale
|August 19, 2016
PubMed

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