Materials science: A crossover in the mechanical response of nanocrystalline ceramics

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5736, 2005, Pages 911-914

  Szlufarska, Izabela ^a   Nakano, Aiichiro ^b   Vashishta, Priya ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INDENTATION; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILICON CARBIDE;

GRAIN SLIDING; INDENTATION DEPTH; INTERGRANULAR DISLOCATION; NANOCRYSTALLINE CERAMICS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

NANOPARTICLE; SILICON CARBIDE;

CERAMICS;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; HARDNESS; MECHANICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARAMETER; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 23244437166     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1114411     Document Type: Article

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