Computer Simulation of Heating of Nickel Films on Two-Layer Graphene

Physics of the Solid State, 2014, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 1048–1053. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2014.

Original Russian Text © A.E. Galashev, 2014, published in FizikaTverdogoTela, 2014, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 1009–1014.

A. E. Galashev

Abstract—The behavior of a nickel film on two-layer graphene in the temperature range 300 K ≤ T ≤ 3300 K has been investigated using the molecular dynamics method. The kinetic, structural, and mechanical properties of this film have been compared with the corresponding characteristics of a similar nickel film on single-layer graphene. It has been shown that the second layer of heated graphene plays a stabilizing role in retaining the hexagonal cellular structure of the graphene layer contacting with the metal.

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