Abstract：Low-dimensional materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have attracted numerous scientific interests and attention, and become a hot research field as their unique and exceptional mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. The local fields of low-dimensional materials that consist of charges, molecular orbitals, electronic structures and spin states are usually coupled with external mechanical deformation and movement, physical and chemical environment, which could lead to novel characteristics and behaviors significantly different from that of the corresponding bulk states. Here we make a brief review on recent progress of mechanical behaviors, mechanical-electric coupling and device mechanisms, tuning structures and properties of surfaces and interfaces, interlayer interactions, energy dissipation and friction of carbon nanotubes, graphene and h-BN materials and also discuss the possibilities and feasible routes to develop novel functional devices by utilizing the multi-field coupling and structure-properties correlation of low-dimensional materials, and the advances and development trend of nano mechanics and physical mechanics.
2017, Vol. 38 
