Origami offers two-dimensional(2D)materials with great potential for applications in flexible electronics,sensors,and smart devices.However,the dynamic process,which is crucial to construct origami,is too fast to be c...Origami offers two-dimensional(2D)materials with great potential for applications in flexible electronics,sensors,and smart devices.However,the dynamic process,which is crucial to construct origami,is too fast to be characterized by using state-of-the-art experimental techniques.Here,to understand the dynamics and kinetics at the atomic level,we explore the edge effects,structural and energy evolution during the origami process of an elliptical graphene nano-island(GNI)on a highly ordered pyrolytic graphite(HOPG)substrate by employing steered molecular dynamics simulations.The results reveal that a sharper armchair edge is much easier to be lifted up and realize origami than a blunt zigzag edge.The potential energy of the GNI increases at the lifting-up stage,reaches the maximum at the beginning of the bending stage,decreases with the formation of van der Waals overlap,and finally reaches an energy minimum at a half-folded configuration.The unfolding barriers of elliptical GNIs with different lengths of major axis show that the major axis should be larger than 242 A to achieve a stable single-folded structure at room temperature.These findings pave the way for pursuing other 2D material origami and preparing origami-based nanodevices.展开更多
Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC),Ministry of Science and Technology of China,and Chinese Academy of Sciences,ajoint team of three laboratories from the Institute of Biophysics of Chines...Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC),Ministry of Science and Technology of China,and Chinese Academy of Sciences,ajoint team of three laboratories from the Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences,led by Dr.Liu Zhenfeng(柳振峰),Dr.Zhang Xinzheng(章新政)and Dr.Li Mei(李梅)respectively,solved the structure of spinach photosystem II-LHCII supercom-展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61888102 and 52102193)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB30000000)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities。
文摘Origami offers two-dimensional(2D)materials with great potential for applications in flexible electronics,sensors,and smart devices.However,the dynamic process,which is crucial to construct origami,is too fast to be characterized by using state-of-the-art experimental techniques.Here,to understand the dynamics and kinetics at the atomic level,we explore the edge effects,structural and energy evolution during the origami process of an elliptical graphene nano-island(GNI)on a highly ordered pyrolytic graphite(HOPG)substrate by employing steered molecular dynamics simulations.The results reveal that a sharper armchair edge is much easier to be lifted up and realize origami than a blunt zigzag edge.The potential energy of the GNI increases at the lifting-up stage,reaches the maximum at the beginning of the bending stage,decreases with the formation of van der Waals overlap,and finally reaches an energy minimum at a half-folded configuration.The unfolding barriers of elliptical GNIs with different lengths of major axis show that the major axis should be larger than 242 A to achieve a stable single-folded structure at room temperature.These findings pave the way for pursuing other 2D material origami and preparing origami-based nanodevices.
文摘Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC),Ministry of Science and Technology of China,and Chinese Academy of Sciences,ajoint team of three laboratories from the Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences,led by Dr.Liu Zhenfeng(柳振峰),Dr.Zhang Xinzheng(章新政)and Dr.Li Mei(李梅)respectively,solved the structure of spinach photosystem II-LHCII supercom-
