Nanowires have unusually pronounced 'anelastic' properties Date: July 13, 2015 Source: North Carolina State University Summary: Researchers have found that nanoscale wires (nanowires) made of ...

"This phenomenon is pronounced in nanowires. For instance, zinc oxide nanowires exhibited anelastic behaviour that is up to four orders of magnitude larger than the largest anelasticity observed in ...

As a consequence, anelastic materials are being investigated for mechanical damping applications. At the macroscopic scale, however, anelasticity is usually very small or negligible, especially in ...

YOUYI RUAN Postdoctoral Research Associate Geosciences, Princeton University My primary research interests include theoretical and computational seismology, wave propagation phenomena in complex media ...

Researchers have found that nanowires made of common semiconductor materials have a pronounced anelasticity - meaning that the wires, when bent, return slowly to their original shape rather than ...