New method achieves controllable tuning, assesses instability in 2D materials for engineering applications

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-method-tuning-instability-2d-materials.html

"mitigates out-of-plane deformation when subjected to geometric constraints, forming ripples, buckling, wrinkling, creases, affecting mechanical, electrical, thermal, lifespan of devices based on suspended 2D... push-to-shear strategy achieves in situ defect observation for 1st time, enabling controllable tuning... local stress/ strain/ curvature changing electronic structure by adjusting wrinkled morphology/ establishing fast proton transport channels... can regulate band structure... semiconductors, flexible devices, composites"