Superhard silicon nanospheres

By W. Gerberich, W. Mook, C. Perrey, C. B. Carter, M. Baskes, R. Mukherjee, A. Gidwani, J. Heberlein, P. Mcmurry, S. Girshick. 2003

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Mechanical properties of nanoparticles: basics and applications (2014, methodology): “For instance, studies suggested that when the applied pressure was ∼1 GPa and the tribopair operated in the boundary lubrication regime, exfoliation of inorganic fullerene-like (IF) nanoparticles as the lubricant additive would dominate [244–247].”
Thermo-mechanical behavior of low-dimensional systems: The local bond average approach (2009, background): “However, the discrepancy for ZnO wires [53] and Si spheres [437] and Si belts [71] in the size dependence of elastic modulus may arise from different T/Tm of operation or different experimental conditions or methods.”
Size dependence of nanostructures: Impact of bond order deficiency (2007, background): “The above-mentioned findings coincide with a recent flurry of activity in the nanotechnology community, which has focused on the indentation size effect [25,219] and the mechanical behavior of small volumes [220,221].”
Nonthermal plasma synthesis of semiconductor nanocrystals (2009, background): “Among the materials properties that are affected by the size of nanocrystals are the optical bandgap [1, 2], the rate of optical emission of indirect bandgap semiconductors [3], the melting point temperature [4–6] and hardness of nanocyrstal materials compared with bulk materials [7].”