Role of five-fold twin boundary on the enhanced mechanical properties of fcc Fe nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5264-5273

  Wu, J Y ^a   Nagao, S ^a   He, J Y ^a   Zhang, Z L ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Five fold twinned fcc iron nanowire; intrinsic stress distribution; phase transformation; size effect; temperature effect

Indexed keywords

AXIAL TENSIONS; BCC PHASE; CLASSICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; DISLOCATION NUCLEATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; FCC PHASE; FE NANOWIRES; HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; INTRINSIC STRESS; MULTI-GRAIN; NEGATIVE POISSON'S RATIOS; PHASE TRANSFORMATION; SIZE EFFECTS; STRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TENSION TESTS; TWIN BOUNDARIES; TWIN STRUCTURE; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOWIRES; NUCLEATION; PHASE STABILITY; STRESS CONCENTRATION; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE TESTING;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 83655190561     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl202714n     Document Type: Article

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