On the elastic modulus of metallic nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3613-3618

  McDowell, Matthew T ^a   Leach, Austin M ^a   Gall, Ken ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG NANOWIRES; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; METALLIC NANOWIRES; METALLIC SURFACES; OXIDE LAYERS; SIZE EFFECTS; SURFACE CONTAMINANTS; SURFACE ENERGIES;

ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC WIRE; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; SILVER; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SURFACE TENSION;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 61649122581     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl801526c     Document Type: Article

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