Mechanical reinforcement of graphene via wrinkling
Hadi Arjmandi-Tash, Roshan Prasad, Hanqing Liu, Gerard Verbiest, Dominic Vella, F. Alijani · 2026
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Description
Hadi Arjmandi-Tash and five co-authors stiffen graphene, a one-atom sheet, by wrinkling it on purpose. Their study appeared in twenty twenty-six. Tiny cantilevers are core parts of nanotechnology, and graphene's floppiness made it nearly unusable for them.
Suspended over micro-cavities, wrinkled membranes grew far stiffer in and out of plane. Poking and vibration tests confirmed the jump, with bending now shaping the response where tension once ruled. The team sculpted cantilevers whose bending stiffness reached millions of electron volts while mass stayed at femtogram scale. The wrinkle trick turns the weakest point of atom-thin sheets into a design tool. Sensors that need extreme compliance with real stability are the target.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hadi Arjmandi-Tash, Roshan Prasad, Hanqing Liu, Gerard Verbiest, Dominic Vella, F. Alijani |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |