Author(s): Wael Joudi, Rika Saskia Windisch, Alberto Trentino, Diana Propst, Jacob Madsen, Toma Susi, Clemens Mangler, Kimmo Mustonen, Florian Libisch, and Jani Kotakoski
Microscopy and molecular dynamics suggest that the decrease in the two-dimensional elastic modulus of graphene with engineered defects is primarily due to corrugations from local strain at vacancies with two or more missing atoms, while single vacancies have a negligible effect...