Hanchen Huang

Physical vapor deposition provides a controllable means of growing two-dimensional metallic thin films and one-dimensional metallic nanorods. While theories exist for the growth of metallic thin films, their counterpart for...

Growth of metallic nanorods by physical vapor deposition is a common practice, and the origin of their dimensions is a characteristic length scale that depends on the three-dimensional Ehrlich-Schwoebel (3D...

It has been widely reported that twin boundaries strengthen nanowires regardless of their morphology-that is, the strength of nanowires goes up as twin spacing goes down. This article shows that...

Nanostructures exhibit strong adhesion, which gives rise to friction even without normal loads. For technological applications, friction involves non-zero compressive loads. However, such frictional behavior of the 1D nanostructures remains...

This Letter proposes a characteristic length scale on surfaces and demonstrates its impact on nanorod growth. The proposed length scale is the dimension of a surface segment bounded by multiple-layer...

The paper reports morphology and structure transitions of silicon carbide (SiC) nanowires during high temperature annealing; the as-prepared nanowires are in the form of SiC core and SiO2 shell. The...

This work presents a proposed mechanism for fabricating Y-shaped nanorods, demonstrates the feasibility of the proposal through classical molecular dynamics simulations, and validates the simulations through magnetron sputter deposition experiments....

A double stranded DNA molecule when pulled with a force acting on one end of the molecule can become either partially or completely unzipped depending on the magnitude of the...