The mechanical reliability of nanoscale metals is a precondition for electronic devices to
function well. Deep insights into the mechanical behaviors of metallic nanocrystals are …

Nanocrystalline metals have many functional and structural applications due to their
excellent mechanical properties compared to their coarse-grained counterparts. The atomic …

Metals containing abundant coherent twin boundaries (TBs) are able to sustain substantial
plastic deformation without fracture due to shear-induced TB migration and sliding …

Nanostructured materials exhibit superior physical and mechanical properties, and they hold
great promise for enabling the development of novel micro/nano electro-mechanical …

Clear understanding of the superior mechanical strength of nanometer-sized metal single
crystals is required to derive advanced mechanical components retaining such superiority …

Serving as nanoelectrodes or frame units, small-volume metals may critically affect the
performance and reliability of nanodevices, especially with feature sizes down to the …

Under mechanical loading, crystalline solids deform elastically, and subsequently yield and
fail via plastic deformation. Thus crystalline materials experience two mechanical regimes …

Nanocrystalline (nc) metals possess extremely high strength, while their capability to deform
plastically has been debated for decades. Low ductility has hitherto been considered an …

In situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) nanomechanical testing has benefited from a
number of recent technical developments related to both how deformation is imaged and …

With the progress of modern transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and development of
dedicated functional TEM specimen holders, people can now manipulate a nano-object with …