Tantalum has unique advantages as a biomaterial for repairing bone defects due to its
outstanding bioactivity, excellent corrosion resistance, and mechanical properties. Ideal …

Ordinarily, the strength and plasticity properties of a metal are defined by dislocations—line
defects in the crystal lattice whose motion results in material slippage along lattice planes …

The use of high-power pulsed lasers to probe the response of materials at pressures of
hundreds of GPa up to several TPa, time durations of nanoseconds, and strain rates of 10 6 …

Pressure-driven shock waves in solid materials can cause extreme damage and
deformation. Understanding this deformation and the associated defects that are created in …

Body-centred cubic (BCC) metals possess unstable intrinsic stacking fault and high
resistance for deformation twinning, which often induce complex twinning dynamics that …

Strain rate, temperature, and microstructure play a significant role in the mechanical
response of materials. Using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, we …

It is generally recognized that single crystals exhibit orientation-dependent elastic and
plastic responses. However, it is less known how the dynamic tensile, or spall, strength …

Recently, a hexagonal phase has been reported in high carbon steels in several studies.
Here, we show that the electron microscopy results used in these studies were erroneously …

Understanding the effect of grain boundaries (GBs) on the deformation and spall behavior is
critical to designing materials with tailored failure responses under dynamic loading. This …

A promising route for manufacturing emergent metamaterials is the use of ultrafast laser
pulses in complex alloy processing. Laser-induced structural transformations in Zr-based …