Adhesion, Stiffness and Instability in Atomically Thin MoS2 Bubbles

David Lloyd, Xinghui Liu, Narasimha Boddeti +4

We measured the work of separation of single and few-layer MoS2 membranes from a SiOx substrate using a mechanical blister test, and found a value of 220 +- 35 mJ/m^2. Our measurem…