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    Researchers at Penn State, the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company have developed methods to control defects in two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, that may lead to improved membranes for water desalination, energy storage, sensing or advanced protective coatings.
     
    For a two-dimensional, one-atom-thick material like graphene, defects such as small cracks or holes can make a big difference in performance. Usually, these defects are considered undesirable. But if the defects can be controlled, they can be used to engineer new, desirable properties into the material.
     
    “As long as you can control defects, you might be able to synthesize in whatever response the graphene will give you,” said Adri van Duin, corresponding author on a recent paper in the American Chemical Society’s journal ACS Nano. “But that does require that you have very good control over defect structure and defect behavior. What we have done here is a pretty strong step towards that.”
     
    van Duin is the co-inventor and main developer of a mathematical modeling and simulation technique called ReaxFF, which is capable of predicting the interactions of thousands of atoms when they are perturbed by an external force, in this case the bombardment of graphene by atoms of a noble gas.
     
    The noble gases, which include helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon, are frequently used to create defects in graphene for the purpose of enhancing its properties. By knocking one or more carbon atoms out of graphene’s interlinking hexagons, a structure reminiscent of chicken wire, the resulting hole can be filled by atoms of another material or molecule in a process called doping. Doping can change the chemical or electrical properties of the graphene, to, for example, allow water molecules to flow through while rejecting salt particles.
     
    Because defects can morph into different shapes or move around in the seconds after creation, his group also simulates putting the graphene in an oven and heating at high temperature, called annealing, to stabilize the structure.
     
    Kichul Yoon, the paper’s lead author and a graduate student in van Duin’s group, said, “This study provides insight into the atomistic scale details of graphene irradiation and is a preliminary step in designing functionalized carbon materials in two dimensions.”
     
    “Clearly there is nothing that makes this exclusive to graphene,” van Duin added. “Any 2D material can be treated with the same simulations. Anyone who wants to dope a 2D material or understand defects will be interested in these simulations.”
     
    The researchers intend to continue working with Lockheed Martin on aerospace applications and will also pursue the goal of graphene-based water desalination. Jacob Swett of Lockheed Martin prepared the samples used in experiments and was crucial in moving the project forward.
     
    van Duin is Kenneth Kuan-Yuo Kuo Early Career Professor and professor of mechanical engineering and chemical engineering at Penn State, and director of the Materials Computation Center, a part of the user facilities of the Materials Research Institute. 
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