Incommensurate phases of a supported nanoparticle film subjected to uniaxial compression

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 824-831

  Chua, Yenchao ^a   Leahy, Brian ^b   Zhang, Minke ^a   You, Siheng ^a   Lee, Ka Yee C ^a,c   Coppersmith, Susan N ^d   Lin, Binhua ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Pattern formation; Two dimensional phase transitions

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GRAPHITE; KRYPTON; NANOFILM;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; ENERGY COST; ENTROPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84872546234     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101630108     Document Type: Article

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