Advances in Nanoindentation and Nanomechanics
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Chemistry at Nanoscale".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 December 2025 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanoindentation; nanomechanics; small scale meterials and systems; materials in electronic systems; in-situ nanomechanics; nanoanalysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, nanoindentation has evolved to become mature, widespread, and arguably the standard experimental technique used to characterize the nanomechanical behavior of (nano-)materials. Despite this, nanoindentation and other nanomechanical approaches continue to be a vital subject of research and development. The reason for this is that the nanomechanical behavior of materials is becoming increasingly important as nanomaterials and nanoscale systems are becoming more widespread, and due to the fact that the scientific and technological challenges related to these are becoming increasingly complex.
Therefore, we are pleased to invite you to submit your original research to this Special Issue of Nanomaterials, entitled “Advances in Nanoindentation and Nanomechanics”.
This Special Issue aims to collate original research articles and reviews focused on the recent advances in nanoindentation and nanomechanics. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Nanoindentation and its experimental applications as well as data analysis approaches including standardization and ontological approaches.
- (Nano-)mechanics of nanomaterials, nanostructures, thin films, multiphase materials, etc.
- Advances in instrumentation for mechanical testing at the micro- and nanoscale.
- Cutting-edge computational, modeling, data-driven, machine learning, and AI-supported approaches applied to micro- and nanomechanical topics.
- Techniques for measuring stress–strain relationships in micro- and nanostructures.
- Characterization of strain-rate sensitive deformation mechanisms.
- Fatigue and creep phenomena across multiple length scales.
- Techniques for hierarchical and functional materials’ characterization across different length scales.
- In situ and in operando testing for micro- and nanomechanics.
- Micro- and nanomechanics of fracture, as well as adhesive and cohesive failures.
- Experimentally informed scale-bridging models.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. André Clausner
Dr. Verena Maier-Kiener
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanoindentation
- nanomechanics
- nanomechanical behavior of materials
- in situ nanomechanics
- computational nanomechanics
- advanced instrumentation in nanomechanics
- nanofracture
- scale-bridging in nanomechanics
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