Surface-stress-induced phase transformation in metal nanowires

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 656-660

  Diao, Jiankuai ^a   Gall, Ken ^a   Dunn, Martin L ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE REACTIONS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATION; FACE CENTERED CUBIC STRUCTURE; MODIFIED EMBEDDED ATOM METHOD; SURFACE STRESSES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC WIRING; ENERGY TRANSFER; GOLD; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0142059242     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat977     Document Type: Letter

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