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SUBMITTER: Kaplan-Ashiri I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1334634 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kaplan-Ashiri Ifat I Cohen Sidney R SR Gartsman Konstantin K Ivanovskaya Viktoria V Heine Thomas T Seifert Gotthard G Wiesel Inna I Wagner H Daniel HD Tenne Reshef R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060109 3
The mechanical properties of materials and particularly the strength are greatly affected by the presence of defects; therefore, the theoretical strength ( approximately 10% of the Young's modulus) is not generally achievable for macroscopic objects. On the contrary, nanotubes, which are almost defect-free, should achieve the theoretical strength that would be reflected in superior mechanical properties. In this study, both tensile tests and buckling experiments of individual WS(2) nanotubes wer ...[more]