Using remarkably simple experimental techniques it is possible to gently break a metallic
contact and thus form conducting nanowires. During the last stages of the pulling a neck …

Nanowires are among the most exciting one-dimensional nanomaterials because of their
unique properties, which result primarily from their chemical composition and large surface …

We show that the topologically protected flat band emerging on a surface of a nodal
fermionic system promotes the surface superconductivity due to an infinitely large density of …

We describe a first-principles method for calculating electronic structure, vibrational modes
and frequencies, electron-phonon couplings, and inelastic electron transport properties of …

We present atomistic simulations of the tensile and compressive loading of single crystal
face-centered cubic (FCC) nanowires with〈 100〉 and〈 110〉 orientations to study the …

Based on the conventional Euler buckling model, uniaxial compression tests have been
utilized recently to measure the mechanical properties of nanowires. However, owing to the …

Atomistic simulations are used to investigate the yield strength of experimentally observed
atomic and nanometer scale gold wires. The atomistic predictions of strength are …

We investigate the possibility of inducing superconductivity in a graphite layer by electronic
correlation effects. We use a phenomenological microscopic Hamiltonian which includes …

We present numerical simulations of gold nanowires under tensile loading at various strain
rates and wire sizes at room temperature. The simulations were performed using molecular …

We performed atomistic simulations to study the yield mechanisms in gold nanowires.
Perfect fcc gold nanowires all yield via the nucleation and propagation of {111}〈 112∟ …