Defect-Driven Shape Instabilities of Bundles

Topological defects are crucial to the thermodynamics and structure of condensed matter systems. For instance, when incorporated into crystalline membranes like graphene, disclinations with positive and negative topological charge elastically buckle the material into conical and saddlelike shapes, r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Isaac R. Bruss, Gregory M. Grason
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018-08-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031046