Removal of stacking-fault tetrahedra by twin boundaries in nanotwinned metals

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yu, K Y ^a   Bufford, D ^a   Sun, C ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Wang, H ^a   Kirk, M A ^b   Li, M ^b   Zhang, X ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KRYPTON; METAL DERIVATIVE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

ANNEALING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IRRADIATION; KRYPTON; SILVER;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; IRRADIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICS; PREDICTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STACKING FAULT TETRAHEDRA; THICKNESS;

EID: 84878683948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2382     Document Type: Article

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