Graphene can be made auxetic through the introduction of vacancy defects. This results in the thinnest negative Poisson's ratio material at ambient conditions known so far, an effect achieved via a nanoscale de-wrinkling mechanism that mimics the behavior at the macroscale exhibited by a crumpled sheet of paper when stretched.

We test the potentials available for elemental carbon, with the scope to choose the potential suitable for the modeling of penta-graphene, the latest two dimensional carbon allotrope. By using molecular statics and molecular dynamics simulations we show that there is only one potential e namely the Tersoff-type potential proposed by Erhart and Albe in 2005 e which is able to correctly describe all the important features of penta-graphene....

Strukturę ciekłych stopów eutektycznych Al_{83}Cu_{17} i Al_{88}Si_{12} zbadano metodami dyfrakcyjnymi i RMC. Przeanalizowano uzyskane całkowite i cząstkowe funkcje korelacyjne i parametry strukturalne.