Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 3, Issue 10, Pages 3001-3008Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn900668p
Keywords
gold nanowire; faceting; twin boundary; dislocation; molecular dynamics
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Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DMR-0747658]
- NASA [NNX06AC88G]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0747658] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The ideal strength of crystalline solids refers to the stress at elastic instability of a hypothetical defect-free crystal with infinite dimensions subjected to an increasing load, Experimentally observed metallic wires of a few tens of nanometers in diameter usually yield far before the ideal strength, because different types of surface. or structural. defects, such as surface inhomogeneities or grain boundaries, act to decrease the stress required for dislocation nucleation and irreversible deformation. In this study, however, we report on atomistic simulations of near-ideal strength in pure Au nanowires with complex faceted structures related to realistic nanowires. The microstructure dependence of tensile strength in face-centered cubic Au nanowires with either cylindrical or faceted surface morphologies was studied by classical molecular dynamics simulations. We demonstrate that maximum strength and steep size effects from the twin boundary spacing are best achieved in zigzag Au nanowire made of a parallel arrangement of coherent twin boundaries along the axis, and {11 (1) over bar} surface facets. Surface faceting in All NWs gives rise to a novel yielding mechanism associated with the nucleation and propagation of full dislocations along {001}< 110 > slip systems, instead of the common {11 (1) over bar}< 112 > partial slip observed in face-centered cubic metals. Furthermore, a shift from surface dislocation nucleation to homogeneous dislocation nucleation arises as the twin boundary spacing is decreased below a critical limit in faceted nanowires. It is thus discovered that special defects can be utilized to approach the ideal strength of gold in nanowires by microstructural design.
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