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Room-temperature creep of nanoporous silica
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2011
Abstract
We show that low-density nanoporous silica monoliths (aerogels), in contrast to the case of full-density silica, exhibit pronounced time-dependent deformation during indentation at room temperature. Logarithmic indentation creep and stress relaxation are revealed, with an exponential dependency of the creep constant on the applied stress. Such time-dependent deformation is attributed to stress corrosion fracture of nanoligaments that have a large surface-to-bulk atomic fraction.
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