Mechanical properties of polycrystalline boron-nitride nanosheets

RSC Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 37, 2014, Pages 19137-19143

  Mortazavi, Bohayra ^a   Cuniberti, Gianaurelio ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR ADVANCING ELECTRONICS DRESDEN CFAED   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOSHEETS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

GRAIN SIZE EFFECT; HIGH MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; POLYCRYSTALLINE BORONS; POLYCRYSTALLINE FILM; POLYCRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; ULTRAFINE-GRAINED; UNIAXIAL TENSILE LOADING;

NITRIDES;

EID: 84899789321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra01103a     Document Type: Article

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