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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 890486, 4 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/890486
Research Article

Compression Experiments on 𝜸 ′ -Nanoparticles

Andreas Landefeld,1 William M. Mook,2,3 Joachim Rösler,1 and Johann Michler3

1Institut für Werkstoffe, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 8, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
2Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
3EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Feuerwerkerstrasse 39, 3602 Thun, Switzerland

Received 18 July 2012; Accepted 7 August 2012

Academic Editors: G. Dirras and F. Sansoz

Copyright © 2012 Andreas Landefeld et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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