Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Room-temperature oxygen vacancy migration induced reversible phase transformation during the anelastic deformation in CuO

  • Lei Li,
  • Guoxujia Chen,
  • He Zheng,
  • Weiwei Meng,
  • Shuangfeng Jia,
  • Ligong Zhao,
  • Peili Zhao,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Shuangshuang Huang,
  • Tianlong Huang,
  • Jianbo Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24155-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The effect of point defects on mechanical behaviour of materials is generally considered at high temperatures. This work reports a reversible stress-induced migration of point defects during anelastic deformation in CuO nanowires at room temperature resulting from heterogeneous strain distribution.