The primary challenge to exploit the nanowire as a truly one‐dimensional building block in
nanoscale devices is the clear incorporation of scale effects into the operational …

Nanowires are among the most exciting one-dimensional nanomaterials because of their
unique properties, which result primarily from their chemical composition and large surface …

Recent nanomechanical tests on submicron metal columns and wires have revealed a
dramatic increase in yield strength with decreasing sample size. Here, we demonstrate that …

The mechanisms of plasticity in metal nanowires with diameters below 100 nm are
reviewed. At these length scales, plasticity in face-centered-cubic metals subjected to …

We demonstrate strain-rate sensitivity emerging in single-crystalline Cu nanopillars with
diameters ranging from 75 up to 500nm through uniaxial deformation experiments …

We report the synthesis, mechanical properties, and deformation mechanisms of
polycrystalline, platinum nanocylinders of grain size d= 12 nm. The number of grains across …

At small length scales, several size-effects in both physical phenomena and properties can
be rationalized by invoking the concept of surface energy. Conventional theoretical …

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were carried out to investigate the effect of orientation
on the deformation behaviour of body centered cubic (BCC) iron nanowires. Nanowires with …

We report the results of computational tensile and compressive tests for model bi-continuous
nanoporous gold structures using atomistic simulations with empirical many-body potentials …

The role of growth twin boundaries on the slip activity of gold nanopillars under uniaxial
compression was investigated by molecular dynamics simulation. A new type of size …