Anisotropy of the Stone-Wales Defect and Warping of Graphene Nano-ribbons: A First-principles Analysis

Somnath Bhowmick, Umesh V Waghmare

Stone-Wales (SW) defects, analogous to dislocations in crystals, play an important role in mechanical behavior of $s{p}^2$-bonded carbon based materials. Here, we show using first-pr…