Fig. 5: Observation of variant Plateau’s law in bi- and tri-dome systems.
From: Variant Plateau’s law in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide dome networks
a Histogram of the joint angles (αi, i = 1, 2, 3) in WS2 bi-dome systems, extracted experimentally (solid bars) and analytically (patterned bars). The inset shows the angle notations in a standard bi-dome configuration. The experimental values for joint angle are 153.1° ± 8.8°, 75.6° ± 9.8° and 131.2° ± 6.1° for α1, α2 and α3, respectively. Statistical data was collected from 20 joint bi-domes. The calculated values for α1, α2 and α3, are 152.6°, 72.3° and 135.1°, respectively, all of which are in good agreement with experimental values. b Histogram of the joint angles (βi, i = 1, 2, 3) in WS2 tri-dome systems, extracted experimentally. The inset shows the angle notations in a standard tri-dome configuration. The experimental values for joint angle are 135.5° ± 6.4°, 104.6° ± 7.1° and 119.9° ± 3.7° for β1, β2 and β3, respectively. Statistical data was collected from 15 joint tri-domes. c AFM image of a WS2 tri-dome system, consisting of 1 L, 2 L and 3 L domes joint together. d Stiffness mapping image of tri-dome shown in c. The layer-dependent stiffness can be clearly distinguished.
