Research Article

Young’s Modulus of Polycrystalline Titania Microspheres Determined by In Situ Nanoindentation and Finite Element Modeling

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(a) Force-displacement curves extracted from nanoindentation experiments and finite element simulations. (b) Young’s modulus as a function of microsphere diameter. The dash line represents Young’s modulus of bulk titania.
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