Are surfaces elastically softer or stiffer

By L. Zhou, Han-Chen Huang. 2004

365 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Geophysics, Materials Chemistry

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Harold S. Park
2. Patrick A. Klein
3. Zhuping Huang
4. B. Karihaloo
5. Ke Wang
6. C. C. Yu
7. Jianxiang Wang
8. Xu Liang

In Geophysics

1. Zhuping Huang
2. B. Karihaloo
3. Jianxiang Wang
4. Chang Q. Sun
5. Huiling Duan
6. Harold S. Park
7. Patrick A. Klein
8. Gregory J. Wagner

In Materials Chemistry

1. Harold S. Park
2. Patrick A. Klein
3. Tungyang Chen
4. C. C. Yu
5. G. Dvorak
6. Jianxiang Wang
7. Chang Q. Sun
8. Zhuping Huang

Citations in the corpus

• Eshelby formalism for nano-inhomogeneities (2005, background): “Zhou & Huang (2004) studied the elastic properties of nanoplates by using a combination of molecular statics and ab initio calculations, and demonstrated that the surface can elastically soften or stiffen the nanoplates compared with the corresponding bulk.”
• Nanoporous Gold—Testing Macro-scale Samples to Probe Small-scale Mechanical Behavior (2016, background): “ing at the surface depending on the crystallography.[40] The clear trend of more stiffness at small ligament size that emerges from the experiments on bulk NPG sam-”
• Effects of surface and flexoelectricity on a piezoelectric nanobeam (2014, background): “For example, for Cu crystal plate, the Young’s modulus along the (110) direction on the (100) surface is larger than its bulk counterpart, while it is smaller along the (100) direction on the (100) surface [18].”