Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been studied extensively for over two decades for
their novel electronic, photonic, thermal, electrochemical and mechanical properties. This …

Abstract “Salinity energy” stored as the salinity difference between seawater and freshwater
is a large-scale renewable resource that can be harvested and converted to electricity, but …

Recent advances in nanotechnology have led to the development of nano-electro-
mechanical systems (NEMS) such as nanomechanical resonators, which have recently …

This review article summarizes the advances in the surface stress effect in mechanics of
nanostructured elements, including nanoparticles, nanowires, nanobeams, and nanofilms …

Piezoelectric nanowires are promising building blocks in nanoelectronic, sensing, actuation
and nanogenerator systems. In spite of great progress in synthesis methods, quantitative …

In the last years, the rapid increase in the technical capability to control and design materials
at the nanoscale has pushed toward an intensive exploitation of new possibilities …

The bending response of Bernoulli-Euler nanobeams made of a functionally graded (FG)
material with different cross-sectional shapes is investigated in this manuscript by a stress …

In this work, the influence of surface effects, including residual surface stress, surface
elasticity and surface piezoelectricity, on the vibrational and buckling behaviors of …

Based on the conventional Euler buckling model, uniaxial compression tests have been
utilized recently to measure the mechanical properties of nanowires. However, owing to the …

Surfaces and interfaces can significantly influence the overall response of a solid body.
Their behavior is well described by continuum theories that endow the surface and interface …