ABSTRACT
Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials are arguably the most actively and extensively developing research areas at the beginning of this century. e number of publications in scienti c periodicals and conference proceedings, fully or partially devoted to nanotechnologies and nanomaterials, is rapidly increasing. However, the development of nanomechanical models and their application to investigation of mechanical behavior of nanomaterials in a systematic way is not happening yet. Present studies of the mechanical behavior of nanoparticles, nanoformations, and nanomaterials are still in their infancy. Only external manifestations of mechanical phenomena are detected, but their mechanisms have not been studied yet.
