Competition between collapse and breakup in nanometer-sized thin rings using molecular dynamics and continuum modeling

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 13960-13967

  Nguyen, Trung Dac ^a   Fuentes Cabrera, Miguel ^a   Fowlkes, Jason D ^a   Diez, Javier A ^b   González, Alejandro G ^b   Kondic, Lou ^c   Rack, Philip D ^a,d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY DYNAMICS; ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CONTINUUM MODEL; CONTINUUM MODELING; SOLID SUBSTRATES;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84867095378     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la303093f     Document Type: Article

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