Effects of strain rate and annealing temperature on tensile properties of nanocrystalline diamond

C Huang, X Peng, B Yang, X Chen, Q Li, D Yin, T Fu - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) is a promising material due to its extraordinary properties,
such as ultrahigh strength and hardness. The effects of strain rate (ε˙) and annealing …

Graphitization resistance determines super hardness of lonsdaleite, nanotwinned and nanopolycrystalline diamond

X Ma, L Shi, X He, L Li, G Cao, C Hou, J Li, L Chang… - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent experiments have reported that nanotwinned and nanopolycrystalline diamond-like
materials exhibit unprecedented hardness, enhanced fracture toughness, and improved …

Ion implantation in nanodiamonds: size effect and energy dependence

AA Shiryaev, JA Hinks, NA Marks, G Greaves… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Nanoparticles are ubiquitous in nature and are increasingly important for technology. They
are subject to bombardment by ionizing radiation in a diverse range of environments. In …

Molecular dynamics simulation of phonon thermal transport in nanotwinned diamond with a new optimized Tersoff potential

L Shi, X Ma, M Li, Y Zhong, L Yang, W Yin… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The inaccuracy of the most widely used potentials in calculating the phonon transport of sp3
carbon materials hinders the use of molecular dynamics simulations for revealing the …

Probing the mechanical properties of porous nanoshells by nanoindentation

FJ Valencia, V Aurora, M Ramírez, CJ Ruestes… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this contribution, we present a study of the mechanical properties of porous nanoshells
measured with a nanoindentation technique. Porous nanoshells with hollow designs can …

Thermal stability of hollow porous gold nanoparticles: A molecular dynamics study

FJ Valencia, M Ramírez, A Varas… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Hollow nanoparticle structures play a major role in nanotechnology and nanoscience since
their surface to volume ratio is significantly larger than that of filled ones. While porous …

Molecular simulations of carbon allotropes in processes with creation and destruction of chemical bonds

E Tangarife, RI Gonzalez, C Cardenas, EM Bringa… - Carbon, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of sophisticated interatomic potentials for classical molecular dynamics
and Monte Carlo simulations has several advantages, but also some drawbacks. One of …

Mechanical performance of lightweight polycrystalline Ni nanotubes

J Rojas-Nunez, F Valencia, RI Gonzalez… - Computational Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
The mechanical properties of metallic nanowires and nanotubes were investigated using
atomistic molecular dynamics simulations on Ni polycrystalline structures, similar to those …

Polycrystalline Ni nanotubes under compression: a molecular dynamics study

J Rojas-Nunez, SE Baltazar, RI Gonzalez… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Mechanical properties of nanomaterials, such as nanowires and nanotubes, are an
important feature for the design of novel electromechanical nano-architectures. Since grain …

[PDF][PDF] Design and properties of Bimetallic Nanostructures: Structural and mechanical properties of stable systems

JER Núñez - 2019 - fisica.usach.cl
The study of bimetallic nanoparticles has grown in the last years, from a theoretical and
experimental perspective, due to the numerous applications envisaged in areas such as …