All materials are able to be nanomaterials as long as their sizes (at least one dimension) become nanoscale. By virtue of the nature herself, many materials reveals exceptional or extraordinary characteristics compared to their bulk counterparts, when their size reaches to nanometer scale. Among them are fullerenes and graphene which gave nobel prizes to Smalley and Geim, respectively. CAN is now mainly working on the mechanics of graphene, metal nanowire, nanoplates, and free surfaces.
- Graphene: Edge Effects on the Intrinsic Energy Dissipation in Graphene Nanoresonators/Multilayer and Clamping Effects on Q-Loss
- Nanowire: Enhancing Nanowire Q through Mechanical Strain
- Nanoplate: Unusual Poisson’s Ratio in Metal Nanoplate
- Nitinol(NiTi): DFT study of nitinol for shape-memory alloys
- Silicate: Cyclability of Transition Metal Silicates