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

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

A systematic experimental and theoretical investigation of the elastic and failure properties
of ZnO nanowires (NWs) under different loading modes has been carried out. In situ …

The previous model on surface free energy has been extended to calculate size dependent
thermodynamic properties (ie, melting temperature, melting enthalpy, melting entropy …

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 …

Understanding the physical mechanism behind atomic-size dependence of the bandgap,
phonon frequency, and mechanical strength in various monolayered MA 2 Z 4 is of crucial …

DFT and BOLS approximations were carried out to study the electronic and optical
properties of different sizes of black phosphorus nanoribbons (PNRs) with either zigzag-or …

Although they exist ubiquitously in human bodies and our surroundings, the impact of
nonbonding lone electrons and lone electron pairs has long been underestimated. Recent …

A complementary combination of experimental work and first-principle calculations, based
on the density functional theory (DFT) method, has been used to increase our limited …

Despite many efforts to advance the understanding of nanowire mechanics, a precise
characterization of the mechanical behavior and properties of nanowires is still far from …