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Stability of Thin Gold Nano Wires

Journal Journal of Nano Research (Volume 4)
Volume Journal of Nano Research Vol. 4
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Pages 65-77
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.4.65
Online since January, 2009
Authors Veena Verma, Keya Dharamvir
Abstract Various gold nanowires with very small cross-sections (few atoms) have been studied using the Gupta potential. Gold nanowire icosa structure is found to be most stable among structures studied. The values of cohesive energy, Young’s modulus and shear modulus have been computed and all the values (except poisson ratio) are more than that of bulk gold. Another striking observation about gold nanostructures is that the Young’s modulus increases with tube radius whereas shear modulus decreases.
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