Unusual compression behavior of anatase TiO2 nanocrystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Swamy, Varghese ^a   Kuznetsov, Alexei Y ^b   Dubrovinsky, Leonid S ^c   Kurnosov, Alexander ^c   Prakapenka, Vitali B ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; OPTICAL COATINGS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COMPRESSION BEHAVIOR; COMPRESSION CURVES; HIGH COMPRESSIONS; IN-SITU SYNCHROTRONS; NANOCRYSTALLINE ANATASE; PRESSURE SHIFT; SIZE DEPENDENT; STIFFNESS VARIATIONS;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 68949161944     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.075505     Document Type: Article

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