Recoverable plasticity in penta-twinned metallic nanowires governed by dislocation nucleation and retraction

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Qin, Qingquan ^a   Yin, Sheng ^b   Cheng, Guangming ^a   Li, Xiaoyan ^c   Chang, Tzu Hsuan ^a   Richter, Gunther ^d   Zhu, Yong ^a   Gao, Huajian ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOWIRE; PLASTIC; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

DISLOCATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PLASTICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASTICITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84923166549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6983     Document Type: Article

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