Mechanical Properties and Fracture Patterns of Pentagraphene Membranes
arXiv:1703.03789
Abstract
Recently, a new two-dimensional carbon allotrope called pentagraphene (PG) was proposed. PG exhibits mechanical and electronic interesting properties, including typical band gap values of semiconducting materials. PG has a Cairo-tiling-like 2D lattice of non coplanar pentagons and its mechanical properties have not been yet fully investigated. In this work, we combined density functional theory (DFT) calculations and reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate the mechanical properties and fracture patterns of PG membranes under tensile strain. We show that PG membranes can hold up to 20% of strain and that fracture occurs only after substantial dynamical bond breaking and the formation of 7, 8 and 11 carbon rings and carbon chains. The stress-strain behavior was observed to follow two regimes, one exhibiting linear elasticity followed by a plastic one, involving carbon atom re-hybridization with the formation of carbon rings and chains. Our results also show that mechanically induced structural transitions from PG to graphene is unlikely to occur, in contrast to what was previously speculated in the literature.
arXiv comment26 pages, 8 figures
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