The low-density magnesium (Mg) alloys are attractive for the application in aerospace,
transportation and other weight-saving-required fields. The mechanical properties and …

Lightweight, high-modulus structural materials are highly desired in many applications like
aerospace, automobile and biomedical instruments. As the lightest metallic structural …

Thermodynamics is a science concerning the state of a system, whether it is stable,
metastable or unstable, when interacting with the surroundings. In this overview …

Chemical pressure, a strange but familiar concept, is a lattice internal force caused by lattice
strain with chemical modifications and arouses great interest due to its diversity and …

As the lightest structural metal and one of the most abundant metallic elements on earth,
magnesium (Mg) has been used as an “industrial metal” for lightweighting in the …

Although the TM 3 Si silicides play an important role in transition metal silicides high-
temperature materials, the hydrogenated mechanism of the cubic TM 3 Si is entirely unclear …

Abstract The Hall–Petch relationship σ y= σ 0+ kyd− 0.5 is widely used to describe the
relationship between yield strength and grain size of polycrystalline metals, and the material …

Micro-alloying design of wrought magnesium (Mg) alloys is an important strategy to achieve
high mechanical properties at a low cost. In the last two decades, significant progress has …

Using the projector-augmented wave method within the generalized gradient approximation,
a systematic first-principles calculation for energy vs. volume (E–V) equations of state …

The influence of Zn on the strain hardening of as-extruded Mg-xZn (x= 1, 2, 3 and 4 wt%)
magnesium alloys was investigated using uniaxial tensile tests at 10− 3 s-1 at room …