When ‘smaller is stronger’ no longer holds
‘Smaller is stronger’ has been a well-established tenet for the mechanical strength of small-volume single crystals. However, emerging evidence suggests that this trend does not always hold in the deep sub-micrometre regime (<∼102 nm) when surface-mediated displacive and diffusive processes domin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Materials Research Letters |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2018.1446192 |