title: Rate-dependent energy release mechanism of gold nanowires under elongation.
abstract: The mechanism of the formation of different junction structures of gold nanowires under stretching has been studied by comprehensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the second-moment approximation of the tight-binding (TB-SMA) potential. The simulations (540 MD runs in total) reveal that there is an inherent rate-dependent energy release law that unifies the effects of the system size, the temperature, and elongation rate on the dynamic elongations of gold nanowires.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA.
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Pu
authors.forename: Yongsheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Leng
authors.forename: Peter T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Cummings