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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2009, Article ID 245941, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2009/245941 Research Article Size Dependence of Dislocation-Mediated Plasticity in Ni Single Crystals: Molecular Dynamics Simulations Xiaoyan Li and Wei Yang Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Correspondence should be addressed to Wei Yang, yw-dem@ Received 16 May 2008; Accepted 21 September 2008 Recommended by Yapu Zhao We investigate the compressive yielding of Ni single crystals by performing atomistic simulations with the sample diameters in the range of 5 nm ∼ 40 nm. Remarkable effects of sample sizes on the yield strength are observed in the nanopillars with two different orientations. The deformation mechanisms are characterized by massive dislocation activities within a single slip system and a nanoscale deformation twining in an octal slip system. A dislocation dynamics-based model is proposed to interpret the size and temperature effects in single slip-oriented nanopillars by considering the nucleation of incipient dislocations. Copyright © 2009 X. Li and W. Yang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction may have extremely strong strength attributed to quantized plasticity [ 13]. It has been widely known that the sample size bears Currently, understanding of size effects of microscale significant effects on the mechanical properties of materials. single crystal focuses on