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Nature Materials 6, 801 - 802 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat2051

Graphene: Buckle or break

Johan M. Carlsson1

  1. Johan M. Carlsson is in the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4–6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
    e-mail: johanc@fhi-berlin.mpg.de


The isolation of free-standing graphene sheets seems to contradict common belief about the existence of two-dimensional crystals. Monte Carlo simulations confirm that the sheets may be stabilized by the formation of finite-sized ripples.

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