| Grain boundary-mediated plasticity in nanocrystalline nickel Z Shan, EA Stach, JMK Wiezorek, JA Knapp, DM Follstaedt, SX Mao Science 305 (5684), 654-657, 2004 | 1035 | 2004 |
| Mechanical annealing and source-limited deformation in submicrometre-diameter Ni crystals ZW Shan, RK Mishra, SA Syed Asif, OL Warren, AM Minor Nature materials 7 (2), 115-119, 2008 | 1003 | 2008 |
| Nano-sized twins induce high rate sensitivity of flow stress in pure copper L Lu, R Schwaiger, ZW Shan, M Dao, K Lu, S Suresh Acta materialia 53 (7), 2169-2179, 2005 | 785 | 2005 |
| Strong crystal size effect on deformation twinning Q Yu, ZW Shan, J Li, X Huang, L Xiao, J Sun, E Ma nature 463 (7279), 335-338, 2010 | 715 | 2010 |
| A new view of the onset of plasticity during the nanoindentation of aluminium AM Minor, SA Syed Asif, Z Shan, EA Stach, E Cyrankowski, TJ Wyrobek, ... Nature materials 5 (9), 697-702, 2006 | 515 | 2006 |
| Approaching the ideal elastic limit of metallic glasses L Tian, YQ Cheng, ZW Shan, J Li, CC Wang, XD Han, J Sun, E Ma Nature communications 3 (1), 609, 2012 | 442 | 2012 |
| Electron-beam-assisted superplastic shaping of nanoscale amorphous silica K Zheng, C Wang, YQ Cheng, Y Yue, X Han, Z Zhang, Z Shan, SX Mao, ... Nature communications 1 (1), 24, 2010 | 351 | 2010 |
| Large plasticity in magnesium mediated by pyramidal dislocations BY Liu, F Liu, N Yang, XB Zhai, L Zhang, Y Yang, B Li, J Li, E Ma, JF Nie, ... Science 365 (6448), 73-75, 2019 | 336 | 2019 |
| Elastic strain engineering for unprecedented materials properties J Li, Z Shan, E Ma Mrs Bulletin 39 (2), 108-114, 2014 | 299 | 2014 |
| Twinning-like lattice reorientation without a crystallographic twinning plane BY Liu, J Wang, B Li, L Lu, XY Zhang, ZW Shan, J Li, CL Jia, J Sun, E Ma Nature communications 5 (1), 3297, 2014 | 289 | 2014 |
| Mechanics and Dynamics of the Strain-Induced M1–M2 Structural Phase Transition in Individual VO2 Nanowires H Guo, K Chen, Y Oh, K Wang, C Dejoie, SA Syed Asif, OL Warren, ... Nano letters 11 (8), 3207-3213, 2011 | 274 | 2011 |
| Ultrahigh stress and strain in hierarchically structured hollow nanoparticles ZW Shan, G Adesso, A Cabot, MP Sherburne, SA Syed Asif, OL Warren, ... Nature materials 7 (12), 947-952, 2008 | 247 | 2008 |
| Exceptional plasticity in the bulk single-crystalline van der Waals semiconductor InSe TR Wei, M Jin, Y Wang, H Chen, Z Gao, K Zhao, P Qiu, Z Shan, J Jiang, ... Science 369 (6503), 542-545, 2020 | 227 | 2020 |
| Plastic flow and failure resistance of metallic glass: Insight from in situ compression of nanopillars ZW Shan, J Li, YQ Cheng, AM Minor, SA Syed Asif, OL Warren, E Ma Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 77 (15), 155419, 2008 | 218 | 2008 |
| The mechanical properties of nanowires S Wang, Z Shan, H Huang Advanced Science 4 (4), 1600332, 2017 | 212 | 2017 |
| Dislocation starvation and exhaustion hardening in Mo alloy nanofibers C Chisholm, H Bei, MB Lowry, J Oh, SAS Asif, OL Warren, ZW Shan, ... Acta Materialia 60 (5), 2258-2264, 2012 | 188 | 2012 |
| Hydrogenated vacancies lock dislocations in aluminium D Xie, S Li, M Li, Z Wang, P Gumbsch, J Sun, E Ma, J Li, Z Shan Nature communications 7 (1), 13341, 2016 | 176 | 2016 |
| In situ study of the initiation of hydrogen bubbles at the aluminium metal/oxide interface DG Xie, ZJ Wang, J Sun, J Li, E Ma, ZW Shan Nature materials 14 (9), 899-903, 2015 | 171 | 2015 |
| Inflating hollow nanocrystals through a repeated Kirkendall cavitation process H Tianou, W Wang, X Yang, Z Cao, Q Kuang, Z Wang, Z Shan, M Jin, ... Nature communications 8 (1), 1261, 2017 | 153 | 2017 |
| Zinc oxide nanotetrapods Z Chen, Z Shan, MS Cao, L Lu, SX Mao Nanotechnology 15 (3), 365, 2004 | 141 | 2004 |