Refining a metal's grain size can result in dramatic increases in strength, and the magnitude
of this strengthening increment can be estimated using the Hall–Petch equation. Since the …

Forming alloys with impurity elements is a routine method for modifying the properties of
metals. An alternative approach involves the incorporation of interfaces into the crystalline …

Conventional metals become harder with decreasing grain sizes, following the classical Hall-
Petch relationship. However, this relationship fails and softening occurs at some grain sizes …

Nisingle bondCo alloy electrodeposits have been widely employed in industry due to their
good corrosion and wear resistance, high mechanical strength, moderate thermal …

The strength of nanocrystalline and nanotwinned metals stops increasing or even starts
decreasing when their grain size or twin thickness is below a critical size—a phenomenon …

Nanocrystalline metals and alloys, with average and range of grain sizes typically smaller
than 100 nm, have been the subject of considerable research in recent years. Such interest …

Focusing on nanocrystalline (nc) pure face-centered cubic metals, where systematic
experimental data are available, this paper presents a brief overview of the recent progress …

In recent years, near-nano (submicron) and nanostructured materials have attracted
increasingly more attention from the materials community. Nanocrystalline materials are …

The plastic behavior of crystalline materials is mainly controlled by the nucleation and
motion of lattice dislocations. We report in situ dynamic transmission electron microscope …

This paper describes mechanistic models that seek to rationalize experimentally determined
low values for the activation volume associated with the high strain rate sensitivity of …