GUO, JIAN-GANG; ZHAO, YA-PU - In: Surface Review and Letters (SRL) 14 (2007) 04, pp. 667-670
A theoretical model is presented to investigate the size-dependent elastic moduli of nanostructures with the effects of the surface relaxation surface energy taken into consideration. At nanoscale, due to the large ratios of the surface-to-volume, the surface effects, which include surface...