The Effects of Dislocation Dipoles on the Failure Strength of Wrinkled Graphene from Atomistic Simulation

This research paper studies the fracture and mechanical properties of rippled graphene containing dislocation dipoles. The atomistic simulation is performed to study the deformation behavior of pristine and defective wrinkled graphene. Graphene wrinkling considerably decreases the ultimate tensile strength of graphene with and without defects but increases the fracture strain. For graphene with the dislocation dipoles, temperature increase slightly affects mechanical properties, in contrast to graphene and graphene with Stone–Wales defect. The extremely similar slopes of the stress-strain curves for graphene with the dislocation dipoles with different arms imply that the distance between dislocations in the dipole does not have noticeable effects on the elastic modulus and strength of graphene. Defects in graphene can also affect its wrinkling; for example, preventing wrinkle formation.