Semiconductor electronics is commonplace in every household. Semiconductor devices
have enabled economically reasonable fiber-based optical communication, optical storage …

Forcenturies, composersandmusicianssuccessfullycompl…. Composers provided humanity
with superb compositions, and musicians have been making attempts to vivify the …

Extremely compliant elastic materials, such as thin membranes or soft gels, can be deformed
when wetted by a liquid drop. It is commonly assumed that the solid capillarity in" soft …

The surface free energy, or surface tension, of a liquid interface gives rise to a pressure jump
when the interface is curved. Here we show that a similar capillary pressure arises at the …

Absolute values of surface energy and surface stress of solids are hardly accessible by
experiment. Here, we investigate the temperature dependence of both parameters for the …

Compared to nanomaterials exposing nonpolar facets, polar-faceted nanocrystals often
exhibit unexpected and interesting properties. The electrostatic instability arising from the …

A straightforward strategy for reaching the ultimate strength of crystalline metals is to
synthesize materials with a scarcity of defects. Bottom-up synthesis of nanostructures is an …

The capillary forces exerted by liquid drops and bubbles on a soft solid are directly
measured using molecular dynamics simulations. The force on the solid by the liquid near …

We investigate the morphological instability of a misfit-strained cylindrical core-shell
nanowire by performing a linear stability analysis. For this aim, the stress and strain …

Local variations in the stiffness at surfaces may affect the elastic response of nanostructures,
yet experiments disagree on the magnitude and even sign of the surface excess elastic …