Individual boron nanowire has ultra-high specific young's modulus and fracture strength as revealed by in situ transmission electron microscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 10112-10120

  Liu, Fei ^a   Tang, Dai Ming ^b   Gan, Haibo ^a   Mo, Xiaoshu ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Deng, Shaozhi ^a   Xu, Ningsheng ^a   Bando, Yoshio ^b   Golberg, Dmitri ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

bending; boron nanowire (BNW); compression; in situ microscopy; mechanical properties; tensile

Indexed keywords

BENDING EXPERIMENTS; IN SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM); IN-SITU MICROSCOPIES; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; MECHANICAL PARAMETERS; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; REINFORCING MATERIALS; TENSILE;

BENDING (FORMING); BENDING STRENGTH; BORON; COMPACTION; COMPRESSION TESTING; ELASTIC MODULI; IN SITU PROCESSING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOWIRES; TENSILE TESTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 84888869452     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404316a     Document Type: Article

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