Retaining large and adjustable elastic strains of kilogram-scale Nb nanowires [Better Superconductor by Elastic Strain Engineering: Kilogram-scale Free-Standing Niobium Metal Composite with Large Retained Elastic Strains]

Hao, Shijie; Cui, Lishan; Wang, Hua; Jiang, Daqiang; Liu, Yinong; Yan, Jiaqiang; Ren, Yang; Han, Xiaodong; Brown, Dennis E.; Li, Ju

doi:10.1021/acsami.5b10840

Title: Retaining large and adjustable elastic strains of kilogram-scale Nb nanowires [Better Superconductor by Elastic Strain Engineering: Kilogram-scale Free-Standing Niobium Metal Composite with Large Retained Elastic Strains]

Journal Article · Wed Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2016 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b10840· OSTI ID:1261336

Hao, Shijie ^[1]; Cui, Lishan ^[1]; Wang, Hua ^[2]; Jiang, Daqiang ^[3]; Liu, Yinong ^[4]; Yan, Jiaqiang ^[5]; Ren, Yang ^[6]; Han, Xiaodong ^[7]; Brown, Dennis E. ^[8]; Li, Ju ^[9]

China Univ. of Petroleum, Beijing (China). State Key lab. of Heavy Oil Processing
Xi'an Jiaotong Univ. (China). State Key Lab. for Mechanical Behavior of Materials and Frontier Inst. of Science and Technology
Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, WA (Australia). School of Mechanical and Chemcial Engineering; China Univ. of Petroleum, Beijing (China). State Key lab. of Heavy Oil Processing
Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, WA (Australia). School of Mechanical and Chemcial Engineering
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology Div.; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). X-ray Science Div.
Beijing Univ. of Technology, (China). Inst. of Microsctructure and Properties of Advanced Materials
Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
Xi'an Jiaotong Univ. (China). State Key Lab. for Mechanical Behavior of Materials and Frontier Inst. of Science and Technology; Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

Crystals held at ultrahigh elastic strains and stresses may exhibit exceptional physical and chemical properties. Individual metallic nanowires can sustain ultra-large elastic strains of 4-7%. However, retaining elastic strains of such magnitude in kilogram-scale nanowires is challenging. Here, we find that under active load, ~5.6% elastic strain can be achieved in Nb nanowires in a composite material. Moreover, large tensile (2.8%) and compressive (-2.4%) elastic strains can be retained in kilogram-scale Nb nanowires when the composite is unloaded to a free-standing condition. It is then demonstrated that the retained tensile elastic strains of Nb nanowires significantly increase their superconducting transition temperature and critical magnetic fields, corroborating ab initio calculations based on BCS theory. This free-standing nanocomposite design paradigm opens new avenues for retaining ultra-large elastic strains in great quantities of nanowires and elastic-strain-engineering at industrial scale.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1261336

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 8, Issue 5; ISSN 1944-8244

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Language:: English

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