Publications
High-strength magnetically switchable plasmonic nanorods assembled from a binary nanocrystal mixture." Nature Nanotechnology (2016). (3.82 MB)
"Interplay between grain boundary segregation and electrical resistivity in dilute nanocrystalline Cu alloys." Scripta Materialia 123 (2016): 113-117. (1.45 MB)
"Isochemical control over structural state and mechanical properties in Pd-based metallic glass by sputter deposition at elevated temperatures." APL Materials 4 (2016): 086104. (2.25 MB)
"Linking stress-driven microstructural evolution in nanocrystalline aluminium with grain boundary doping of oxygen." Nature Communications 7 (2016). (2.24 MB)
"Nanomaterials: A foundational building block to nanotechnology breakthroughs past and future." JOM 68 (2016): 2307-2308. (694.36 KB)
"Thermomechanical behavior of molded metallic glass nanowires." Scientific Reports 6 (2016). (1.07 MB)
"In situ measurements of a homogeneous to heterogeneous transition in the plastic response of ion-irradiated< 111> Ni microspecimens." Acta Materialia 88 (2015): 121-135. (5.12 MB)
"Measuring surface dislocation nucleation in defect-scarce nanostructures." Nature materials 14 (2015): 707-713. (2.38 MB)
"Modelling wrinkling interactions produced by patterned defects in metal thin films." Extreme Mechanics Letters 4 (2015): 175-185. (3.41 MB)
"Nanomechanics: Full recovery takes time." Nature nanotechnology 10 (2015): 659-660. (111.36 KB)
"Orthogonal control of stability and tunable dry adhesion by tailoring the shape of tapered nanopillar arrays." Advanced Materials 27 (2015): 7788-7793. (1.2 MB)
"A robust smart window: Reversibly switching from high transparency to angle-independent structural color display." Advanced Materials 27 (2015): 2489-2495. (1.6 MB)
"Tunable thermoelectric transport in nanomeshes via elastic strain engineering." Applied Physics Letters 106 (2015): 113101. (1.3 MB)
"Effect of ion irradiation on tensile ductility, strength and fictive temperature in metallic glass nanowires." Acta Materialia 74 (2014): 165-182. (2.43 MB)
"Robust scaling of strength and elastic constants and universal cooperativity in disordered colloidal micropillars." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (2014): 18167-18172. (1.61 MB)
"Strain-and defect-mediated thermal conductivity in silicon nanowires." Nano letters 14 (2014): 3785-3792. (5.23 MB)
"Synthesis and mechanical response of disordered colloidal micropillars." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16 (2014): 10274-10285. (4.04 MB)
"Tailoring and understanding the mechanical properties of nanoparticle-shelled bubbles." ACS applied materials & interfaces 6 (2014): 11558-11572. (7.12 MB)
"Temperature controlled tensile testing of individual nanowires." Review of Scientific Instruments 85 (2014): 013901. (1.26 MB)
"Understanding the mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline Al–O thin films with complex microstructures." Acta Materialia 77 (2014): 269-283. (4.15 MB)
"Effect of organometallic clamp properties on the apparent diversity of tensile response of nanowires." Nanotechnology 24 (2013): 235704. (665.09 KB)
"Tensile behavior of Al1-xMox crystalline and amorphous thin films." Acta Materialia 61 (2013): 1432-1443. (1.27 MB)
"Tunable tensile ductility in metallic glasses." Scientific reports 3 (2013). (1.98 MB)
"Existence of two twinning-mediated plastic deformation modes in Au nanowhiskers." Acta Materialia 60 (2012): 3985-3993. (1.17 MB)
"In situ TEM observation of grain annihilation in tricrystalline aluminum films." Acta Materialia 60 (2012): 2209-2218. (1.67 MB)
"Lattice anharmonicity in defect-free Pd nanowhiskers." Physical review letters 109 (2012): 125503. (578.28 KB)
"Observations of grain boundary impurities in nanocrystalline Al and their influence on microstructural stability and mechanical behaviour." Acta Materialia 60 (2012): 1038-1047. (3.02 MB)
"The role of confinement on stress-driven grain boundary motion in nanocrystalline aluminum thin films." Journal of Applied Physics 112 (2012): 124313. (11.41 MB)
"Source-based strengthening of sub-micrometer Al fibers." Acta Materialia 60 (2012): 977-983. (955.5 KB)
"In situ measurement of the toughness of the interface between a thermal barrier coating and a Ni alloy." Journal of the American Ceramic Society 94 (2011). (2.25 MB)
"In situ nanomechanical testing in focused ion beam and scanning electron microscopes." Review of Scientific Instruments 82 (2011): 063901. (5.88 MB)
"A method for in situ measurement of the elastic behavior of a columnar thermal barrier coating." Acta Materialia 59 (2011): 3612-3620. (1.11 MB)
"Extremely low drift of resistance and threshold voltage in amorphous phase change nanowire devices." Applied Physics Letters 96 (2010): 222111. (332.38 KB)
"Mechanical characterization of coatings using microbeam bending and digital image correlation techniques." Experimental Mechanics 50 (2010): 85-97. (1.22 MB)
"Quantitative in situ mechanical testing." MRS BULLETIN 35 (2010). (680.05 KB)
"Size independent shape memory behavior of nickel–titanium." Advanced Engineering Materials 12 (2010): 808-815. (603.22 KB)
"Experimental observations of stress-driven grain boundary migration." Science 326 (2009): 1686. (0 bytes)
"In situ deformation of thin films on substrates." Microscopy Research and Technique 72 (2009): 270-283. (620.05 KB)
"Micro-and nanoscale tensile testing of materials." JOM 61 (2009): 24-35. (1.24 MB)
"Tensile and compressive microspecimen testing of bulk nanoporous gold." JOM 61 (2009): 26-31. (305.88 KB)
"Ultrahigh strength single crystalline nanowhiskers grown by physical vapor deposition." Nano letters 9 (2009): 3048-3052. (2.06 MB)
"Grain-size stabilization by impurities and effect on stress-coupled grain growth in nanocrystalline Al thin films." Materials Science and Engineering: A 483-484 (2008): 637-640. (476.67 KB)
"In situ TEM observations of fast grain-boundary motion in stressed nanocrystalline aluminum films." Acta Materialia 56 (2008): 3380-3393. (1.54 MB)
"Stress-driven surface topography evolution in nanocrystalline Al thin films." Advanced Materials 20 (2008): 303-308. (410.64 KB)
"Strain measurements of silicon dioxide microspecimens by digital imaging processing." Experimental Mechanics 47 (2007): 649-658. (670.61 KB)
"Increased strain rate sensitivity due to stress-coupled grain growth in nanocrystalline Al." Scripta materialia 55 (2006): 649-652. (244.77 KB)
"Stress-assisted discontinuous grain growth and its effect on the deformation behavior of nanocrystalline aluminum thin films." Acta materialia 54 (2006): 2253-2263. (762.93 KB)
"Experimental techniques for uncovering deformation mechanisms in nanocrystalline Al thin films." TMS Letters 1 (2004): 149. (1.39 MB)
"Techniques for testing thin films in tension." Experimental techniques 28 (2004): 23-27. (833.39 KB)
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