Nanomechanical cutting of boron nitride nanotubes by atomic force microscopy

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 50, 2013, Pages

  Zheng, Meng ^a   Chen, Xiaoming ^a   Park, Cheol ^b,c   Fay, Catharine C ^d   Pugno, Nicola M ^e   Ke, Changhong ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES (BNNTS); DESIGN AND MANUFACTURES; FRICTIONAL INTERACTIONS; NANOMECHANICAL STUDIES; NANOMECHANICAL TESTING; STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATIONS; TUBULAR NANOSTRUCTURES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BORON NITRIDE; DEFORMATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTING; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

NANOTUBES;

EID: 84889668642     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/50/505719     Document Type: Article

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