Abstract
Engineering strain and interlayer registry in 2D crystals have been demonstrated as effective controls of their properties. Separation of domains with different interlayer registries in graphene bilayer has been reported, but the pattern control of strained solitons has not yet been achieved. We show here that, by pulling a graphene bilayer apart, soliton structures with a regularly modulated interlayer registry arise from the competition between elastic deformation in monolayers and local slip at the van der Waals interfaces. The commensurate-incommensurate transition with strain localization is identified as the interlayer overlap exceeds a critical size, where the continuum description of load transfer through the tension-shear chain breaks down. Birth, development and annihilation processes of the strained solitons can be controlled by the loading conditions. The effects of lattice symmetry and mechanical constraints are also discussed, completing the picture for microstructural evolution processes in the homo- or heterostructures of 2D crystals.
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