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NANO LETTERS
Volume 4, Issue 10, Pages 1863-1867Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl0489992
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We performed atomistic simulations to study the yield mechanisms in gold nanowires. Perfect fcc gold nanowires all yield via the nucleation and propagation of {111}<112> partial dislocations. The magnitude of the yield stress is much larger in tension versus compression for very small <100> nanowires, and this asymmetry is primarily due to the effects of surface stresses and different slip systems active during tensile and compressive yielding. Nanowires with a <111> orientation only show significant tension-compression asymmetry when defects exist in the wire prior to reverse compressive loading.
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