Micro-and nanomechanical testing has seen a rapid development over the last decade with
miniaturized test rigs and MEMS-based devices providing access to the mechanical …

Applications of nanowires into future generation nanodevices require a complete
understanding of the mechanical properties of the nanowires. A great research effort has …

Nanoscale small-volume metallic materials typically exhibit high strengths but often suffer
from a lack of tensile ductility due to undesirable premature failure. Here, we report unusual …

Understanding the incipient plastic mechanism in metals is critical for their associated
mechanical properties. While heterogeneous dislocation nucleation from pre-existing …

This review briefly summarizes recent progress in defect electrocatalysts, and the synthesis
strategies and characterization techniques for defects are systematically discussed …

Harvesting solar energy for vapor generation is an appealing technology that enables
substantial eco-friendly applications to overcome the long-standing global challenge of …

Ultrahigh surface-to-volume ratio in nanoscale materials, could dramatically facilitate mass
transport, leading to surface-mediated diffusion similar to Coble-type creep in polycrystalline …

This paper proposes the'skin effect'of the machining-induced damage at high strain rates.
The paper first reviews the published research work on machining-induced damage and …

Material objects with micrometer or nanometer dimensions can exhibit much higher strength
than macroscopic objects, but this strength rarely approaches the maximum theoretical …

The strength of metals increases with decreasing sample size, a trend known as the size
effect. In particular, focused ion beam-milled body-centered cubic (BCC) micropillars exhibit …