Non-Hookean statistical mechanics of clamped graphene ribbons
Non-Hookean statistical mechanics of clamped graphene ribbons
Thermally fluctuating sheets and ribbons provide an intriguing forum in which to investigate strong violations of Hooke's Law: Large distance elastic parameters are in fact not constant but instead depend on the macroscopic dimensions. Inspired by recent experiments on free-standing graphene cantilevers, we combine the statistical mechanics of thin elastic …