Publications

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69. Seok-Woo Lee, Shuyang Xiao, Roser Valentí, Paul C. Canfield, “Review: Mechanical behaviors of ThCr2Si2-structured intermetallic compounds,” – in preparation

68. Zachary Arenella, Zhongyuan Li, James A. Wollmershauser, Edward P. Gorzkowski, Boris N. Feigelson, “Grain size effect on microstructural evolution in nanocrystalline MgAl2O4 spinel under nanoindentation,” Journal of Materials Research (2023) – in preparation

67. Alexander Horvath, Zhongyuan Li, Gil Drachuk, Paul C. Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee, “Anisotropic hysteresis behavior of CaFe2As2 single crystals,” (2023) – in preparation

66. Zhongyuan Li, Nikhil Tiwale, Wonil Lee, Chang-Yong Nam, Seok-Woo Lee, “Achieving the ultrahigh modulus of resilience from interpenetrating-network ceramic-polymer nanocomposites,” (2023) – in preparation

65. Zhongyuan Li, Alexander Horvath, Gyuho Song, Seok-Woo Lee, “Tension-compression asymmetric behavior of screw dislocation in body-centered-cubic metal nanowires,” – in preparation 

64. Tyler J. Flanagan, Benjamin Bedard, Sumit Suresh, Avinash M. Dongare, Harold D. Brody, Victor K. Champagne Jr, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee, “Microstructure and micro-mechanical properties of Al6061 cold spray deposits” – will be submitted to Materials Science and Engineering soon! (2023)

63. Chinthani D Liyanage, Ngoc Chau Vy, Sean T. McDermott, Jared Fee, Shuyang Xiao, Muhammed Ali Gultekin, Ali Bazzi, Seok-Woo Lee, Douglas Adamson, “Electrified Graphene Nano Electrode Flow-through Membrane for Wastewater Decontamination,” – will be submitted to Advanced Functional Materials (2023).

62. Zhongyuan Li, Ayush Bhardwaj, Jinlong He, Wenxin Zhang, Thomas T. Tran, Ying Li, James J. Watkins, Seok-Woo Lee, “Nanoporous amorphous carbon nanopillars with lightweight, near-theoretical strength, large fracture strain, and high damping capability,” Nature Communications (2023) – under minor revision [Preprint at Research Square]

61. Shuyang Xiao, Adrian Valadkhani, Sarshad Rommel, Paul Canfield, Mark Aindow, Roser Valentí, Seok-Woo Lee, “Tension-compression asymmetry in superelasticity of SrNi2P2 single crystals and the influence of low temperatures,Acta Materialia (2023) – under minor revision [Preprint at SSRN]

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60. Tra Vinikoor, Godwin dzidotor, Thinh T. Le, Yang Liu, Ho-Man Kan, Srimanta Barui, Meysam T. Chorsi,  Eli J. Curry, Emily Reinhardt, Hanzhang Wang, Parbeen Singh, Marc A Merriman, Ethan D’orio, Shuyang Xiao, James H Chapman, Feng Lin, Cao-Sang Truong, Somasundaram Prasadh, Lisa Chuba, Shaelyn Killoh, Seok-Woo Lee, Qian Wu, Ramaswamy M. Chidambaram, Kevin W. H. Lo, Cato T. Laurencin, Thanh D. Nguyen, “Injectable and biodegradable piezoelectric hydrogel for medical applications,” Nature Communications, 14, 6257 (2023) [PDF][web]

59. Bryer C. Sousa, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee, Diana Lados, Anthony G. Spangenberger, Christopher M. Sample, Danielle L. Cote, “Ch.9. Characterization of cold-sprayed material consolidations,” Advances in Cold Spray (2nd ed.), Woodhead Publishing, 205-298 (2023) [PDF][web]

58. Aaron N. Michelson, Tyler J. Flanagan, Seok-Woo Lee*, Oleg Gang*, “Light-weight and high strength silica nanolattices templated from DNA origami,Cell Reports Physical Science, 4, 101475 (2023) [PDF][web][Editor’s Choice – 2023!] – featured at UConn Today Columbia University News, American Ceramic Society Newsthe Department of Energy (DOE) website, Tech Brief, and Science Tech Daily!

57. Shuyang Xiao, Sarshad Rommel, Kiera A. Burns, Aurora A. Buswell, Vladislav Borisov, Juan Schmidt, Roser Valentí, Paul C. Canfield, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee, “Effects of Rhodium doping on dislocation nucleation in a [001] SrNi2P2 single crystals under spherical nanoindentaiton,” Journal of Materials Research, 38, 3491–3503 (2023) [PDF][web] (Kiera A. Burns and Aurora A. Buswell are UConn undergraduate students!).

56. Jessica M. Maita, Sarshad Rommel, Jacob R. Davis, James A. Wollmershauser, Edward P. Gorzkowski, Boris N. Feigelson, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee, “Grain size dependence of mechanical properties of nanocrystalline magnesium aluminate MgAl2O4,” Acta Materialia, 251, 118881 (2023) [PDF][web]

55. Zhongyuan Li, Jinlong He, Nikhil Tiwale, Keith J. Dusoe, Chang-Yong Nam, Ying Li, Seok-Woo Lee, “Unraveling the ultrahigh modulus of resilience of sequential-infiltrated core-shell polymer nanocomposite nanopillars,Materials & Design, 227, 111770 (2023) [PDF][web]

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54. A. A. Hemeda, J. Xu, C. T. Wu, A. Mishra, D. Cote, Matthew Siopis, I. M. Nault, A. Nardi, V. K. Champagne, S. Lee, M. Aindow, J. W. Palko, and Y. Ma, “Heterogeneous distribution of mechanical properties of single particle cold spray impacts,”  Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 31, 498–507 (2022) [PDF][web]

53. Yang Liu, Godwin Dzidotor, Thinh T. Le, Tra Nguyen, Kristin Morgan, Eli J. Curry, Ritopa Das, Aneesah McClinton, Ellen Eisenberg, Lorraine N. Apuzzo, Khanh T. M. Tran, Pooja Prasad, Tyler J. Flanagan, Seok-Woo Lee, Ho-Man Kan, Kevin W. H. Lo, Cato T. Laurencin, Thanh D. Nguyen, “Exercise-induced piezoelectric stimulation for cartilage regeneration,” Science Translational Medicine,  14, eabi7282 (2022) [PDF][web]

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52. Shuyang Xiao, Vladislav Borisov, Guilherme Gorgen-Lesseux, Sarshad Rommel, Gyuho Song, Jessica M. Maita, Mark Aindow, Roser Valentí, Paul Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee, “Pseudoelasticity of SrNi2P2 micropillar via lattice collapse and expansion,” Nano Letters, 21, 7913-7920 (2021) [PDF] [web

51. Ian N. Bakst, John T. Sypek, Sriram Vijayan, Shuyang Xiao, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee, Christopher R. Weinberger ,”Uniaxial compression of CaFe2As2 single crystals: the effects of microstructure and temperature on superelasticity – Part II: ModelingActa Materialia, 203, 116462 (2021) [PDF][web]

50. John T. Sypek, Sriram Vijayan, Ian N. Bakst, Shuyang Xiao, Matthew J. Kramer, Paul C. Canfield, Mark Aindow, Christopher R. Weinberger, Seok-Woo Lee, “Uniaxial compression of CaFe2As2 single crystals: the effects of microstructure and temperature on superelasticity – Part I: Experimental ObservationActa Materialia, 203, 116464 (2021) [PDF][web]

49. Gyuho Song, Nicole K. Aragon, Ill Ryu, Seok-Woo Lee, “Low Temperature Failure Mechanism of [001] Niobium Micropillars Revealed by in-situ Cryogenic Micro-Tensile Tests and Dislocation Dynamics Simulations,” Journal of Materials Research (Invited Paper), 362371–2382 (2021) – [PDF] [web

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48. Alexis T. Ernst, Peter Kerns, Aaron Nardi, Harold D. Brody, Avinash M. Dongare, Seok-Woo Lee, Victor K. Champagne, Steven L. Suib, Mark Aindow, “Surface states of gas-atomized Al 6061 powders – effects of heat treatment,” Applied Surface Science, 534, 147643 (2020) [PDF] [web]

47. Tyler J. Flanagan, Sriram Vijayan, Sergey Galitskiy, Jacob Davis, Benjamin Bedard, Avinash Dongare, Mark Aindow, Cyril L. Williams, Seok-Woo Lee, “Shock-induced deformation twinning and softening in magnesium single crystals,” Materials & Design 194, 108884 (2020) [PDF] [web]

46. Jessica M. Maita, Gyuho Song, Mariel Colby, Seok-Woo Lee, “Atomic arrangement and mechanical properties of amorphous boron,” Materials & Design, 193, 108856 (2020) [PDF] [web]

45. Cain J. Hung, Sanjeev K. Nayak, Yu Sun, Colette Fennessy, Venkat K. Vedula, Sonia Tulyani, Seok-Woo Lee, Pamir Alpay, “Novel Al-X alloys with improved hardness,” Materials & Design, 192, 108699 (2020) [PDF] [web]

44. Sumit Suresh, Seok-Woo Lee, Mark Aindow, Harold D Brody, Victor K Champagne, Avinash M. Dongare, “Mesoscale evolution of jet initiation behavior and microstructure evolution during cold spray single particle impact,Acta Materialia 182, 197-206 (2020) [PDF] [web]

43. Hetal D. Patel, Seok-Woo Lee, “Spherical indentation on tungsten single crystal: transition from source-controlled plasticity to bulk plasticity,” Scripta Materialia, 175, 16-19 (2020) [PDF] [web]  – Hetal D. Patel (undergraduate student)

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42. Tyler J. Flanagan, Oleg Kovalenko, Eugen Rabkin, Seok-Woo Lee, “The effect of defects on strength of gold microparticles,” Scripta Materialia, 171,  83-86 (2019) [PDF] [web]

41. Tyler J. Flanagan, Benjamin Bedard, Avinash M. Dongare, Harold D. Brody, Victor K. Champagne Jr, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee, “Mechanical properties of supersonic-impacted Al6061 power particles,” Scripta Materialia, 171, 52-56 (2019) [PDF] [web].

40. Gyuho Song, Vladislav Borisov, William R. Meier, Mingyu Xu, Keith J. Dusoe, John T. Sypek, Roser Valenti, Paul C. Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee, “Ultrahigh elastically compressible and strain-engineerable intermetallic compounds under uni-axial mechanical loading,” APL Materials 7, 061104 (2019) [PDF] [web]

39. Gyuho Song, Seok-Woo Lee, “Effect of temperature on surface-controlled dislocation multiplication in body-centered-cubic metal nanowire,” Computational Materials Science 168, 172-179 (2019) [PDF][web]

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38. Benjamin Bedard, Alex Ernst, Tyler J. Flanagan, Avinash M. Dongare, Seok-Woo Lee, Harold D. Brody, Victor K. Champagne Jr, Mark Aindow, “Microstructure and micromechanical response in gas-atomized Al6061 alloy powder and cold-sprayed splats,” Journal of Thermal Spray Technology 27 1563-1578 (2018) [PDF] [web]

37. Ian N. Bakst, Keith J. Dusoe, Gil Drachuk, James R. Neilson, Paul C. Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee, Christopher R. Weinberger, “Effects of point defects on the mechanical response of LaRu2P2,” Acta Materialia 160 224-234 (2018) – [PDF][web]

36. Ian N. Bakst, Hang Yu, Mohammadreza Bahadori, Haibo Yu, Seok-Woo Lee, Mark Aindow, Christopher R. Weinberger, “Insights into the plasticity of Ag3Sn from Density Functional Theory,” International Journal of Plasticity 110 57-73 (2018) – [PDF][web]

35. Sumit Suresh, Seok-Woo Lee, Mark Aindow, Harold Brody, Victor R. Champagne, Avinash M. Dongare, “Unraveling the mesoscale evolution of microstructure during supersonic in aluminum powder particles,” Scientific Report 8, 10075 (2018) [PDF][web]

34. Ian N. Bakst, John T. Sypek, Seok-Woo Lee, James R. Neilson, Christopher R. Weinberger, “Modeling pseudo-elastic behavior in small-scale ThCr2Si2-type crystals,” – Computational Materials Science 150, 86-95 (2018) [PDF][web]

33. Keara Frawley, Ian Bakst, John T. Sypek, Sriram Vijayan, Christopher R. Weinberger, Paul C. Canfield, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee, “A nanoindentation study on plastic deformation and fracture behaviors of [0 0 1] CaFe2As2 intermetallic compound,” JOM 70, 1074-1080 (2018) [PDF][web] – Keara Frawley (undergraduate student) –  featured in journal cover

32. Gyuho Song, Tai Kong, Keith J. Dusoe, Paul C. Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee, “Shear localization and size-dependent strength of of YCd6 quasicrystal approximant at the micrometer scale,” Journal of Materials Science 53, 6980-6990 (2018) [PDF][web]

31. Haibo Yu, William Meier, Paul C. Canfield, Christopher R. Weinberger, Seok-Woo Lee, Mark Aindow, “Defect structures in solution-grown single crystals of the intermetallic compound Ag3Sn,” Journal of Materials Science 53, 5317-5328 (2018) [PDF][web]

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30. Haibo Yu, Yu Sun, Seok-Woo Lee, Paul C. Canfield, Mark Aindow “Characterization of Dislocations in Single-Crystalline Ag3Sn intermetallic alloys,” Proceedings of Microscopy and Microanalysis, 23 760-761 (2017) [PDF] [web]

29. Keith J. Dusoe, Xinyi Ye, Kim Kisslinger, Aaron Stein, Chang-Yong Nam, Seok-Woo Lee, “Ultra-high elastic energy storage in metal-oxide-infiltrated hybrid polymer nanocomposite,” Nano Letters17, 7416–7423 (2017) [PDF][web– Featured at Brookhaven National Laboratory Main Web Page on 12/17/2017, Brookhaven National Laboratory News, and phys.org.

28. John T. Sypek, Hang Yu, Keith J. Dusoe, Gil Drachuck, Hetal Petal, Amanda M. Giroux, Alan I. Goldman, Andreas Kreyssig, Paul C. Canfield, Sergey L. Bud’ko, Christopher R. Weinberger, Seok-Woo Lee, “Superelasticity and cryogenic linear shape memory effects of CaFe2As2,” Nature Communications 8 1083 (2017) [PDF][web]– Featured at Ames Laboratory News, Science DailyUConn, UConn Today, phys.org.

27. John T. Sypek, Christopher R. Weinberger, Sriram Vijayan, Mark Aindow, Paul C. Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee, “Superelastic and micaceous deformation in the intermetallic compound CaFe2As2,” Scripta Materialia 141 10-14 (2017) – [PDF][web].

26. Keith J. Dusoe, Sriram Vijayan, Thomas R. Bissell, Jie Chen, Jack E. Morley, Leopoldo Valencia, Avinash M. Dongare, Mark Aindow & Seok-Woo Lee, “Strong, ductile and thermally stable Cu-based metal-intermetallic nanocomposites,” Scientific Reports 7 40409 (2017) – [PDF][web] – Undergraduate Student: Thomas R. Bissell, Jack E. Morley, Leopoldo Valencia

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25. Roman Kositski, Oleg Kovalenko, Seok-Woo Lee, Julia R. Greer, Eugen Rabkin, Dan Mordehai, “Cross-split of dislocations: an athermal and rapid plasticity mechanism,” Scientific Reports 2 25966 (2016) – [PDF][web].

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24. Seok-Woo Lee, Jafary-Zadeh Mehdi, David Chen, Yong-Wei Zhang, Julia R. Greer, “Size effect suppresses brittle failure in hollow Cu60Zr40 metallic glass nanolattices deformed at cryogenic temperature,” Nano Letters 15 5673-5681 (2015)  – [PDF][web].

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23. Seok-Woo Lee, Yintong Cheng, Ill Ryu, Julia R. Greer, “Cold-temperature deformation of nano-sized tungsten and niobium revealed by in-situ nano-mechanical experiments,” Science China Technological Sciences 16 184-189 (2014) (invited, and featured on the cover) [PDF][web] – Yintong Cheng (undergraduate student)

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22. Seok-Woo Lee, Lucas Meza, Julia R. Greer, “Cryogenic nanoindentation size effect in [0 0 1]-oriented face-centered and body-centered-cubic single crystals,” Applied Physics Letters 103 101906 (2013) [PDF][web].

21. Seok-Woo Lee, Andrew T. Jennings, Julia R. Greer, “Emergence of enhanced strength and Bauschinger effect in conformally passivated copper nanopillars as revealed by dislocation dynamics,” Acta Materialia 61 1872-1885 (2013) [PDF][web].

20. Andrew T. Jennings, Christopher R. Weinberger, Seok-Woo Lee, Zachary H. Aitken, Lucas Meza, Julia R. Greer, “Modeling dislocation nucleation strengths in pristine nanowires under experimental conditions,” Acta Materialia 61 2244-2259 (2013) [PDF][web].

19. Seok-Woo Lee, Jie Lian, Lorenzo Valdevit, Michael I. Baskes, Julia R. Greer, “Emergence of film thickness-dependent tensile modulus in nanocrystalline Ni films,” Scripta Materialia (the first two authors’ equal contribution) 68 261-264 (2013) [PDF][web].

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18. Andrew T. Jennings, Cameron Gross, F. Greer, Zachary H. Aitken, Seok-Woo Lee, Christopher R. Weinberger, Julia R. Greer, “Higher compressive strengths and Bauschinger effect in conformally-passivated copper nanopillars,” Acta Materialia 60 3444-3455 (2012) [PDF][web].

17. Seok-Woo Lee, William D. Nix, “Size dependence of the yield strength of FCC and BCC metallic micropillars with diameters of a few micrometers,” Philosophical Magazine 92 1283-1260 (2012) [PDF][web].

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16. Seok-Woo Lee, Sylvie Aubry, William D. Nix, Wei Cai, “Dislocation junctions and jogs in an FCC free-standing thin film,” Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 19 025002 (2011) [PDF][web].

15. William D. Nix, Seok-Woo Lee, “Micropillar plasticity controlled by dislocation nucleation at surfaces,” Philosophical Magazine 91 1084-1096 (2011) [PDF][web].

14. Jong-Hyun Seo, Youngdong Yoo, Na-Young Park, Sang-Won Yoon, Hyoban Lee, Sol Han, Seok-Woo Lee, Tae-Yeon Seong, Seung-Cheol Lee, Kon Bae Lee, Pil-Ryung Cha, Harold Park, Bongsoo Kim, Jae-Pyoung Ahn, “Superplastic deformation of defect-free Au nanowires via coherent twin propagation,” Nano Letters 11 3499-3502 (2011) [PDF][web].

13. Seok-Woo Lee, Dan Mordehai, David J. Srolovitz, William D. Nix, Eugen Rabkin, “Effects of focused-ion beam irradiation and prestraining on the mechanical properties of FCC Au microparticles on a sapphire substrate,” Journal of Materials Research 26 1653-1661 (2011) Invited Feature Paper of the symposium P in the MRS 2010 Fall meeting [PDF][web].

12. Dan Mordehai, Seok-Woo Lee, Björn Backes, David J. Srolovitz, William D. Nix, Eugen Rabkin, “Size effect in compression of single-crystal gold microparticles,” Acta Materialia 59 5202-5215 (2011) [PDF][web].

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11. Ashwini Bharathula, Seok-Woo Lee, Wendelin J. Wright, Katharine M. Flores, “Compression testing of metallic glass at small length scales: Effects on deformation mode and stability,” Acta Materialia 58 5789-5796 (2010) [PDF][web].

10. Seok-Woo Lee, William D. Nix, “Geometrical analysis on 3D dislocation dynamics simulation of FCC micro pillar plasticity,” Materials Science and Engineering A527 1903-1910 (2010) [PDF][web].

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9. Seok-Woo Lee, Seung Min Han, William D. Nix “Uniaxial compression tests of Au nanopillars: the effects of prestraining and annealing,” Acta Materialia 57 4404-4415 (2009) [PDF][web].

8. Christopher R. Weinberger, Sylvie Aubry, Seok-Woo Lee, William D. Nix, Wei Cai, “Modeling dislocations in a free-standing thin film,” Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 17 075007 (2009) [PDF][web].

7. Christopher R. Weinberger, Sylvie Aubry, Seok-Woo Lee, Wei Cai, “Dislocation dynamics simulations in a cylinder,” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 3 012007 (2009) [PDF][web]

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6. Seung-Jae Lee, Seok-Woo Lee, Kyou-Hyun Lee, Jun-Hee Han, Jae-Chul Lee, “A high strength Cu-based alloy containing superlattice structures,” Scripta Materialia 56 457-460 (2007) [PDF][web].

5. Seok-Woo Lee, Jae-Pyung Ahn, Yu-Chan Kim, Jae-Chul Lee, “A parameter governing the plasticity of Cu-Zr containing bulk metallic glasses,” Materials Science and Engineering A449-451 172-175 (2007) [PDF][web].

4. Seok-Woo Lee, Sang-Chul Lee, Yu-Chan Kim, Eric Fleury, Jae-Chul Lee, “Design of a Cu-Zr containing bulk amorphous alloy with simultaneous improvement in glass forming ability and plasticity,” Journal of Materials Research 22 486-492 (2007) [PDF][web].

3. Kyou-Hyun Kim, Seok-Woo Lee, Jae-Pyeong Ahn, Eric Fleury, Yu-Chan Kim, Jae-Chul Lee, “A Cu-based amorphous alloy with a simultaneous improvement in its glass forming ability and plasticity,” Metals and Materials International 13 21-24 (2007) [PDF][web].

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2. Seok-Woo Lee, Su-Won Chae, Moo-Young Hun, Jae-Chul Lee, “Mechanism of the deformation-induced nanocrystallization in a Cu-based bulk amorphous alloy under uniaxial compression,” Scripta Materialia 53 1439-1444 (2006) [PDF][web].

1. Seok-Woo Lee, Moo-Young Huh, Eric Fleury, Jae-Chul Lee, “Crystallization-induced plasticity of Cu-Zr containing bulk amorphous alloys,” Acta Materialia 54 349-355 (2006) [PDF][web].

 

Book Chapter

Bryer C. Sousa, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee, Diana Lados, Anthony G. Spangenberger, Christopher M. Sample, Danielle L. Cote, “Ch.9. Characterization of cold-sprayed material consolidations,” Advances in Cold Spray (2nd ed.), Woodhead Publishing, 205-298 (2023) [PDF][web]

Seok-Woo Lee, Julia R. Greer, “Size effects in nanomaterials and their use in creating architectured structral materials,” The Nano-Micro Interface: Bridging the Micro and Nano Worlds, Wiley-VCH Verlang GmbH & Co. KGaA (2015) [PDF][web]

 

PhD Dissertation (Stanford University, 2011)

Seok-Woo Lee, “The Plasticity of Metals at the Sub-Micrometer Scale and Dislocation Dynamics in a Thin Film,” Stanford University, 2011 (Thesis Principal Advisor: William D. Nix and Co-advisor: Wei Cai) [PDF].