DOI: 10.1063/1.3676084. Coaxing graphene to be piezoelectric

10.1063/1.3676084

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Abstract

Several exotic characteristics and properties have made graphene a well-studied material from both a basic science viewpoint as well as tantalizing applications ranging from nanoelectronics, gas separation membranes to ultracapacitors. Graphene, however, is non-piezoelectric. This is obvious when graphene is in its metallic or semi-metallic state. However, even when graphene is in dielectric form—which can be engineered through porosity or by using nanoribbons—graphene is non-piezoelectric due to its centrosymmetric crystal structure. Using quantum mechanical calculations, we show that merely by creating holes of the right symmetry, graphene can be coaxed to act as a piezoelectric. We find that certain specifically tailored porous graphene sheets can “acquire” piezoelectricity coefficient that is nearly 72% of the well-known piezoelectric (quartz) or 36% of boron nitride nanotubes.

Bibliography

Chandratre, S., & Sharma, P. (2012). Coaxing graphene to be piezoelectric. Applied Physics Letters, 100(2).

Authors 2

Swapnil Chandratre (first)
Pradeep Sharma (additional)

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Dates

Type	When
Created	13 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 14, 2012, 8:45 a.m.)
Deposited	2 years ago (July 30, 2023, 8:45 p.m.)
Indexed	4 days, 2 hours ago (Aug. 26, 2025, 3:10 a.m.)
Issued	13 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 9, 2012)
Published	13 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 9, 2012)
Published Online	13 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 13, 2012)
Published Print	13 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 9, 2012)

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BibTeX

@article{Chandratre_2012, title={Coaxing graphene to be piezoelectric}, volume={100}, ISSN={1077-3118}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3676084}, DOI={10.1063/1.3676084}, number={2}, journal={Applied Physics Letters}, publisher={AIP Publishing}, author={Chandratre, Swapnil and Sharma, Pradeep}, year={2012}, month=jan }

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