@Article{Peng2012nanoscale,
author ="Peng, Qing and Ji, Wei and De, Suvranu",
title  ="First-Principles Study of the Effects of Mechanical Strains on the Radiation Hardness of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Monolayers",
journal  ="Nanoscale",
year  ="2013",
volume = "5",
pages  ="695-703",
publisher  ="The Royal Society of Chemistry",
doi  ="10.1039/C2NR32366D",
url  ="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2NR32366D",
abstract  ="We investigated the strain effect on radiation hardness in the hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) monolayer through Density Func- tional Theory calculations. Both compressive and tensile strains are studied in elastic domains along the zigzag{,} armchair{,} and biaxial directions. We observed a constant reduction in the radiation hardness under all strains for both Boron and Nitrogen monovacancy configurations. The origin of this effect is that the energy barrier to knock out an atom is reduced by strain. Our results imply that the strained nanomaterials are vulnerable to the radiation damage."}