High Partial Auxeticity Induced by Nanochannels in [111]-Direction in a Simple Model with Yukawa Interactions

Computer simulations using Monte Carlo method in the isobaric-isothermal ensemble were used to investigate the impact of nanoinclusions in the form of very narrow channels in the [Formula: see text]-direction on elastic properties of crystals, whose particles interact via Yukawa potential. The studies were performed for several selected values of Debye screening length ([Formula: see text]). It has been observed that introduction of the nanoinclusions into the system reduces the negative value of Poisson’s ratio towards [Formula: see text] , maintaining practically constant values of Poisson’s ratio in the directions [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. These studies also show that concentration of particles forming the nanoinclusions in the system has a significant effect on the value of Poisson’s ratio in the [Formula: see text]-direction. A strong (more than fourfold) decrease of Poisson’s ratio in this direction was observed, from [Formula: see text] (system without inclusions) to [Formula: see text] (system with nanoinclusions) at [Formula: see text] when the inclusion particles constituted about 10 percent of all particles. The research also showed an increase in the degree of auxeticity in the system with increasing concentration of nanoinclusion particles for all the screening lengths considered.