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Quantifying the local mechanical properties of twisted double bilayer graphene

Alessandra Canetta, Sergio Gonzalez-Munoz, Viet-Hung Nguyen, Khushboo Agarwal, Pauline de Crombrugghe de Picquendaele, Yuanzhuo Hong, Sambit Mohapatra, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Bernard Nysten, Benoît Hackens, Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau, Jean-Christophe Charlier, Oleg Victor Kolosov, Jean Spièce, Pascal Gehring

Nanoscale· Volume 15· Issue 18
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Abstract

Nanomechanical measurements of minimally twisted van der Waals materials remained elusive despite their fundamental importance for device realisation. Here, we use Ultrasonic Force Microscopy (UFM) to locally quantify the variation of out-of-plane Young's modulus in minimally twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG). We reveal a softening of the Young's modulus by 7% and 17% along single and double domain walls, respectively. Our experimental results are confirmed by force-field relaxation models. This study highlights the strong tunability of nanomechanical properties in engineered twisted materials, and paves the way for future applications of designer 2D nanomechanical systems.
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Nanomaterials

OpenAlex topics: Graphene research and applications · Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research · Quantum and electron transport phenomena

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Affiliations

Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), 91120 Palaiseau, France

Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 305-0044, Japan

International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 305-0044, Japan

Funding

European Commission · Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council · Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS · Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek · Japan Society for the Promotion of Science · Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles · Graphene Flagship

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