Publications of S. Nikolov

Nikolov, S.; Fabritius, H. O.; Petrov, M.; Friák, M.; Lymperakis, L.; Sachs, C.; Raabe, D.; Neugebauer, J.: Robustness and optimal use of design principles of arthropod exoskeletons studied by ab initio-based multiscale simulations. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 4, pp. 129 - 145 (2011)

Elstnerová, P.; Friák, M.; Fabritius, H.; Lymperakis, L.; Hickel, T.; Petrov, M.; Nikolov, S.; Raabe, D.; Ziegler, A.; Hild, S. et al.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio study of thermodynamic, structural, and elastic properties of Mg-substituted crystalline calcite. Acta Biomaterialia 6 (12), pp. 4506 - 4512 (2010)

Nikolov, S.; Petrov, M.; Lymperakis, L.; Friák, M.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.; Neugebauer, J.: Revealing the Design Principles of High-Performance Biological Composites Using Ab initio and Multiscale Simulations: The Example of Lobster Cuticle. Advanced Materials 22 (4), pp. 519 - 526 (2010)

Nikolov, S.; Raabe, D.: Hierarchical Modeling of the Elastistic Properties of Bone at Submicron Scales: The Role of Extrafibrillar Mineralization. Biophysical Journal 94, pp. 4220 - 4232 (2008)

Tatiraju, R. V. S.; Han, C. S.; Nikolov, S.: Size Dependent Hardness of Polyamide/Imide. The Open Mechanics Journal 2, pp. 89 - 92 (2008)

Han, C. S.; Nikolov, S.: Indentation size effects in polymers and related rotation gradients. Journal of Materials Research 22, pp. 1662 - 1672 (2007)

Nikolov, S.; Lebensohn, R. A.; Raabe, D.: Self-consistent modeling of large plastic deformation, texture and morphology evolution in semi-crystalline polymers. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 54 (7), pp. 1350 - 1375 (2006)

Nikolov, S.; Raabe, D.: Yielding of polyethylene through propagation of chain twist defects: Temperature, stem length and strain-rate dependence. Polymer 47 (5), pp. 1696 - 1703 (2006)

Nikolov, S.; Han, C. S.; Raabe, D.: On the origin of size effects in small-strain elasticity of solid polymers. International Journal of Solids and Structures 44, pp. 1582 - 1592 (2006)

Friák, M.; Fabritius, H.-O.; Nikolov, S.; Petrov, M.; Lymperakis, L.; Sachs, C.; Elstnerová, P.; Neugebauer, J.; Raabe, D.: Multi‐scale Modelling of a Biological Material: The Arthropod Exoskeleton. In: Materials Design Inspired by Nature: Function Through Inner Architecture (CHAPTER 9), pp. 197 - 218 (Eds. Fratzl, P.; Dunlop, J.W.C.; Weinkamer, R.) (2013)

Nikolov, S.; Fabritius, H.-O.; Friák, M.; Raabe, D.; Neugebauer, J.: Hierarchical modeling of biological nanocomposites. In: Mechanics of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, pp. 199 - 224 (Eds. Kavardzhikov, V.; Parashkevova, L.; Baltov, A.). Institute of Mechanics - BAS, Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria (2012)

Fabritius, H.; Sachs, C.; Raabe, D.; Nikolov, S.; Friák, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Chitin in the exoskeletons of arthropoda: From ancient design to novel materials science. In: Chitin, pp. 35 - 60 (Ed. editor), N. S. G. (.). Springer, Germany (2011)

Han, C. S.; Nikolov, S.: Frank energy and size dependent deformation in polymer. 13th International Symposium on Plasticity and its Current Applications, Alaska [USA], June 02, 2007 - June 06, 2007., (2008)

Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H.; Raabe, D.; Petrov, M.; Friak, M.; Neugebauer, J.; Lymperakis, L.; Ma, D.: Hierarchical modeling of the mechanical properties of lobster cuticle from nano‐ up to macroscale: The influence of the mineral content and the microstructure. In: Proceedings of MMM 2008 "Computational Modeling of biological and soft condensed matter systems", pp. 667 - 670. 4th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Tallahassee, FL, USA, October 27, 2008 - October 31, 2008. Dep. of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, USA (2008)

Nikolov, S.; Roters, F.; Raabe, D.: A constitutive model with shear transformation zones plasticity and reptation-based viscoelasticity. 3th Int. Conference Multiscale Materials Modeling 2006, Freiburg, Germany, September 18, 2006 - September 22, 2006. (2006)

Nikolov, S.; Lebensohn, R. A.; Roters, F.; Raabe, D.; Ma, A.: Micromechanical modeling of large plastic deformation in semi-crystalline polymers. 12th International Symposium on Plasticity 2006, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), July 17, 2006 - July 22, 2006. (2006)

Fabritius, H.-O.; Janus, A. M.; Wu, X.; Nikolov, S.; Eisenlohr, P.; Friák, M.; Neugebauer, J.; Raabe, D.: Structure-property Relations in the Arthropod Exoskeleton, a Multifunctional Biological Composite. Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) 2014, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2014)

Friák, M.; Petrov, M.; Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H. O.; Hemzalová, P.; Ma, D.; Lymperakis, L.; Raabe, D.; Hild, S. et al.; Ziegler, A.; Neugebauer, J.: Nano-to-macro-scale modeling of hierarchical biocoposites. SPP 1420 Summer School, UIm, Germany (2013)

Friák, M.; Petrov, M.; Nikolov, S.; Sachs, C.; Fabritius, H. O.; Hemzalová, P.; Ma, D.; Lymperakis, L.; Raabe, D.; Janus, A. M. et al.; Hild, S.; Zigler, A.; Neugebauer, J.: Arthropod cuticle: A biological multi-functional composite used as template for nano-to-macro-scale hierarchical modeling. Seventh International Conference on Materials Structure and Micromechanics of Fracture, Brno, Czech Republic (2013)

Herbig, M.; Goto, S.; Li, Y.; Choi, P.; Zaefferer, S.; Nematollahi, A.; Kirchheim, R.; Nikolov, S.; Friák, M.; Borchers, C. et al.; Neugebauer, J.; Raabe, D.: Nanostructures in 1 Billon Tons: Interface Engineering in Complex Steels and Biological Nanocomposites. Materialwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany (2013)