Strong Hall-Petch Type Behavior in the Elastic Strain Limit of Nanotwinned Gold Nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3865-3870

  Wang, Jiangwei ^a   Sansoz, Frederic ^b   Deng, Chuang ^c   Xu, Gang ^d   Han, Gaorong ^d   Mao, Scott X ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

elastic strain engineering; Hall Petch hardening; ideal elastic strain limit; in situ transmission electron microscopy; metallic nanowires; Nanotwin

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GOLD; HARDENING; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN SITU PROCESSING; METALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING;

ELASTIC STRAIN; ELASTIC STRAIN ENGINEERINGS; HALL-PETCH; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; METALLIC NANOWIRES; NANOTWINS;

STRAIN;

EID: 84935883857     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00694     Document Type: Article

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