The Ideal Tensile Strength and Phonon Instability of Borophene

Abstract

Very recently, two-dimensional(2D) boron sheets (borophene) with rectangular structure has been grown successfully on single crystal Ag(111) substrates.The fabricated boroprene is predicted to have unusual mechanical properties. We performed first-principle calculations to investigate the mechanical properties of the monolayer borophene, including ideal tensile strength and critical strain. It was found that monolayer borophene can withstand stress up to 20.26 N/m and 12.98 N/m in a and b directions, respectively.However, its critical strain was found to be small. In a direction, the critical value is only 8%, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the lowest among all studied 2D materials.Our numerical results show that the tensile strain applied in b direction enhances the bucking height of borophene resulting in an out-of-plane negative Poisson's ratio, which makes the boron sheet show superior mechanical flexibility along b direction.The failure mechanism and phonon instability of monolayer borophene were also explored.

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