supported by National Basic Research Program of China(No.2013CB035902);Research Project of State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering of Tsinghua University(No.2011-KY-4);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51339033 and 51279087)
The effect of strain rate on the tensile strength of defective monocrystalline silicon (Si) nanorods is studied with the molecular dynamics method. The strain rate applied to the nanorods is varied from l0T to 1014 ...