Near-ideal theoretical strength in gold nanowires containing angstrom scale twins

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Jiangwei ^a   Sansoz, Frederic ^b   Huang, Jianyu ^c   Liu, Yi ^d   Sun, Shouheng ^d   Zhang, Ze ^e   Mao, Scott X ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; NANOWIRE;

CRYSTAL PROPERTY; DUCTILITY; GOLD; NUCLEATION; SIZE EFFECT; TWINNING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; PARTICLE SIZE; SAMPLE SIZE; SHEAR STRESS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84877744426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2768     Document Type: Article

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