Gold is an element whose unique properties are strongly influenced by relativistic effects. A
large body of appropriate calculations now exists and its main conclusions are summarized …

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 …

The welding of metals at the nanoscale is likely to have an important role in the bottom-up
fabrication of electrical and mechanical nanodevices. Existing welding techniques use local …

Uniaxial compression tests have been performed on single crystal Au columns ranging in
diameter from 180 nm to 8 µm. The columns were machined into the surface of a large …

Recent works show that the yield strength of metals increases steeply with decreasing
sample size. In this work, it is shown that this sample size effect can be rationalized almost …

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 …

Shape memory alloys undergo reversible transformations between two distinct phases in
response to changes in temperature or applied stress 1. The creation and motion of the …

One-dimensional (1-D) metallic nanoscale materials have long been of interest to many
groups of scientists. Within the last 2 decades, great advances in the synthesis of metallic …

We present differences in the mechanical behavior of nanoscale gold and molybdenum
single crystals. A significant strength increase is observed as the size is reduced to 100 nm …

We present atomistic simulations of the tensile and compressive loading of single crystal
face-centered cubic (FCC) nanowires with〈 100〉 and〈 110〉 orientations to study the …