Critical Review on Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Elastic Properties of Wurtzite-Structured ZnO Nanowires
Nanotechnology Reviews 2023
Sergei Vlassov, Dmitry Bocharov, Boris Polyakov, Mikk Vahtrus, Andris Šutka, Sven Oras, Veronika Zadin, Andreas Kyritsakis

In this critical review, we call attention to a widespread problem related to the vast disagreement in elastic moduli values reported by different authors for nanostructures made of the same material. As a particular example, we focus on ZnO nanowires (NWs), which are among the most intensively studied nanomaterials due to their remarkable physical properties and promising applications. Since ZnO NWs possess piezoelectric effects, many applications involve mechanical deformations. Therefore, there are plenty of works dedicated to the mechanical characterization of ZnO NWs using various experimental and computational techniques. Although the most of works consider exactly the same growth direction and wurtzite crystal structure, reported values of Young’s modulus vary drastically from author to author ranging from 20 to 800 GPa. Moreover, both – diameter dependent and independent – Young’s modulus values have been reported. In this work, we give a critical overview and perform a thorough analysis of the available experimental and theoretical works on the mechanical characterization of ZnO NWs in order to find out the most significant sources of errors and to bring out the most trustable results.


Atslēgas vārdi
ZnO nanowires; Young’s modulus; experimental studies; simulations; ab initio ; molecular dynamic
DOI
10.1515/ntrev-2022-0505
Hipersaite
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ntrev-2022-0505/html

Vlassov, S., Bocharov, D., Polyakov, B., Vahtrus, M., Šutka, A., Oras, S., Zadin, V., Kyritsakis, A. Critical Review on Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Elastic Properties of Wurtzite-Structured ZnO Nanowires. Nanotechnology Reviews, 2023, Vol. 12, No. 11, Article number 20220505. ISSN 2191-9089. e-ISSN 2191-9097. Available from: doi:10.1515/ntrev-2022-0505

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)
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