Discrete plasticity in sub-10-nm-sized gold crystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Zheng, He ^a,b   Cao, Ajing ^c   Weinberger, Christopher R ^d   Huang, Jian Yu ^d   Du, Kui ^e   Wang, Jianbo ^b   Ma, Yanyun ^f   Xia, Younan ^f   Mao, Scott X ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PHASE TRANSITION; PLASTICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 79251573531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1149     Document Type: Article

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