Harnessing mechanical instabilities at the nanoscale to achieve ultra-low stiffness metals

The rule of mixtures usually causes composite properties to fall between the maximum and minimum of the parent phases. Here, the authors use large-scale molecular dynamics simulations to break that rule by stabilizing a negative stiffness state in fully dense nickel-aluminum nanowires to achieve ult...

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Main Authors: Samuel Temple Reeve, Alexis Belessiotis-Richards, Alejandro Strachan
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a7a32ddd40c447899a0e31cc10ab4e54
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