From "smaller is stronger" to "size-independent strength plateau": Towards measuring the ideal strength of iron

Wei-Zhong Han; Ling Huang; Shigenobu Ogata; Hajime Kimizuka; Zhao-Chun Yang; Christopher Weinberger; Qing-Jie Li; Bo-Yu Liu; Xi-Xiang Zhang; Ju Li; Evan Ma; Zhi-Wei Shan

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From "smaller is stronger" to "size-independent strength plateau": Towards measuring the ideal strength of iron

Wei-Zhong Han, Ling Huang, Shigenobu Ogata, Hajime Kimizuka, Zhao-Chun Yang, Christopher Weinberger, Qing-Jie Li, Bo-Yu Liu, Xi-Xiang Zhang, Ju Li, Evan Ma, Zhi-Wei Shan

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Abstract

The trend from "smaller is stronger" to "size-independent strength plateau" is observed in the compression of spherical iron nanoparticles. When the diameter of iron nanospheres is less than a critical value, the maximum contact pressure saturates at 10.7 GPa, corresponding to a local shear stress of ≈9.4 GPa, which is comparable to the theoretical shear strength of iron. © 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3385-3390
Journal	Advanced Materials
Volume	27
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201500377
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2015
Externally published	Yes

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This work was supported by the grants from NSFC (Grant Nos. 51231005, 51471128, 11132006, and 51321003) and 973 Program of China (2012CB619402). The authors appreciate the support from the 111 Project of China (B06025). W.-Z.H. was supported by the new faculty start-up funding from XJTU. Both E.M. and J.L. carried out this work under an adjunct professorship at XJTU. J.L. acknowledges support by NSF DMR-1120901 and DMR-1240933. S.O. and H.K. acknowledge support by ESISM and JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Nos. 22102003, 23246025, 23109004, 24686072, and 25630013).

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iron nanoparticles
size effects
strength plateau

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