Mechanical properties of ceria nanorods and nanochains; The effect of dislocations, grain-boundaries and oriented attachment

Nanoscale

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1823-1837

  Sayle, Thi X T ^a   Inkson, Beverley J ^d   Karakoti, Ajay ^b   Kumar, Amit ^b   Molinari, Marco ^c   Möbus, Günter ^d   Parker, Stephen C ^c   Seal, Sudipta ^b   Sayle, Dean C ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Bath Claverton Down   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM POSITIONS; ATOMISTIC MODELS; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; BULK ELASTIC MODULI; CERIA NANOPARTICLES; COMPRESSION AND TENSION; DISLOCATION EVOLUTION; EFFECT OF DISLOCATIONS; EXTENDED DEFECT; FLUORITE STRUCTURE; GROWTH DIRECTIONS; INTERFACIAL PLANES; MECHANICAL STRENGTH; NANOCHAINS; ORIENTED ATTACHMENT; PRISTINE MATERIALS; SLIP DIRECTION; SLIP SYSTEM; SURFACE-ROUGHENING; TENSILE YIELD STRENGTH; TENSION AND COMPRESSION; THEORETICAL STRENGTH; YIELD STRAIN; YIELD STRENGTH;

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANISMS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; OXIDE MINERALS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; POINT DEFECTS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE DEFECTS; TENSILE STRENGTH; YIELD STRESS;

EDGE DISLOCATIONS;

CERIUM; NANOMATERIAL;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADHESIVENESS; CERIUM; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 79953739899     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0nr00980f     Document Type: Article

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