Wall-thickness-dependent strength of nanotubular ZnO.
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SUBMITTER: Kang NR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5489488 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
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Wall-thickness-dependent strength of nanotubular ZnO.
Kang Na-Ri NR Kim Young-Cheon YC Jeon Hansol H Kim Seong Keun SK Jang Jae-Il JI Han Heung Nam HN Kim Ju-Young JY
Scientific reports 20170628 1
We fabricate nanotubular ZnO with wall thickness of 45, 92, 123 nm using nanoporous gold (np-Au) with ligament diameter at necks of 1.43 μm as sacrificial template. Through micro-tensile and micro-compressive testing of nanotubular ZnO structures, we find that the exponent m in [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the relative strength and [Formula: see text] is the relative density, for tension is 1.09 and for compression is 0.63. Both exponents are lower than the value of 1.5 in t ...[more]
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