[HTML][HTML] Advances and opportunities in high-throughput small-scale mechanical testing

DS Gianola, NM della Ventura, GH Balbus… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2023 - Elsevier
The quest for novel materials used in technologies demanding extreme performance has
been accelerated by advances in computational materials screening, additive manufacturing …

Experimental molecular dynamics for individual atomic-scale plastic events in nanoscale crystals

S Zheng, S Shinzato, S Ogata, SX Mao - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The experimental determination of critical stresses for yielding and plastic flow is of upmost
importance for the understanding of the atomic-scale mechanical behaviors of nanoscale …

Fluorine-free fabrication of MXene via photo-fenton approach for advanced lithium–sulfur batteries

L Liang, L Niu, T Wu, D Zhou, Z Xiao - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
The mainstream synthesis method for MXene is using aqueous fluorine-containing acidic
solutions to eliminate the A-element layers from their MAX phases. However, this strategy is …

Achieving micron-scale plasticity and theoretical strength in Silicon

M Chen, L Pethö, AS Sologubenko, H Ma… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
As the backbone material of the information age, silicon is extensively used as a functional
semiconductor and structural material in microelectronics and microsystems. At ambient …

Light, strong, and stable nanoporous aluminum with native oxide shell

W Yang, ZP Luo, WK Bao, H Xie, ZS You, HJ Jin - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Aluminum (Al) metal is highly reactive but has excellent corrosion resistance because of the
formation of a self-healing passive oxide layer on the surface. Here, we report that this native …

The effects of composition and microstructure on compressive strength of Ag-Au nanoparticles

T Fedyaeva, S Mathesan, A Bisht, Z Liang, D Mordehai… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Hemispherical nanoparticles of Ag-33 at.% Au and Ag-60 at.% Au alloys were fabricated by
solid state dewetting of Ag-Au bilayers deposited on a sapphire substrate. The in-situ …

Advances in experimental mechanics at atomic scale

S Zheng, SX Mao - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
With the ongoing trend of miniaturizing electronic devices, the dimensions of metallic
materials used in these devices decrease continuously from sub-microns to a few …

Homogeneous nucleation of dislocations in copper: Theory and approximate description based on molecular dynamics and artificial neural networks

AE Mayer, VS Krasnikov, VV Pogorelko - Computational Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Nucleation of dislocations in a homogeneous crystal lattice is relevant for small-scale
plasticity or ultra-fast loading. Previously, we improved the dislocation nucleation theory and …

Size-dependent role of surfaces in the deformation of platinum nanoparticles

S Azadehranjbar, R Ding, IM Padilla Espinosa… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The mechanical behavior of nanostructures is known to transition from a Hall-Petch-like
“smaller-is-stronger” trend, explained by dislocation starvation, to an inverse Hall-Petch …

Giant shape-and size-dependent compressive strength of molybdenum nano-and microparticles

A Sharma, R Kositski, O Kovalenko, D Mordehai… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
The ability to process metallic samples at the sub-micrometer scale raised the strength limits
of pure metals to the Giga Pascal (GPa) range. Here, we fabricated Mo nanoparticles with a …