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• Article | 20 July 2020

  Preferential self-healing at grain boundaries in plasma-treated graphene

  Hyperspectral Raman imaging is used to visualize defects in polycrystalline graphene under ion bombardment, showing zero-dimensional and one-dimensional defects in grains and at grain boundaries, respectively, and preferential self-healing at the grain boundaries.

  • P. Vinchon
  • , X. Glad
  •  & L. Stafford

• Letter | 22 June 2015

  A kirigami approach to engineering elasticity in nanocomposites through patterned defects

  Networks of notches in nanocomposite sheets prevent unpredictable local failure and increase the ultimate strain of the sheets from 4% to 370% without affecting their electrical conductance.

  • Terry C. Shyu
  • , Pablo F. Damasceno
  •  & Nicholas A. Kotov