Review on superior strength and enhanced ductility of metallic nanomaterials

IA Ovid'Ko, RZ Valiev, YT Zhu - Progress in materials science, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanostructured metallic materials having nanocrystalline and ultrafine-grained structures
show exceptional mechanical properties, eg superior strength, that are very attractive for …

Radiation damage in nanostructured materials

X Zhang, K Hattar, Y Chen, L Shao, J Li, C Sun… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Materials subjected to high dose irradiation by energetic particles often experience severe
damage in the form of drastic increase of defect density, and significant degradation of their …

Dual-phase nanostructuring as a route to high-strength magnesium alloys

G Wu, KC Chan, L Zhu, L Sun, J Lu - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
It is not easy to fabricate materials that exhibit their theoretical 'ideal'strength. Most methods
of producing stronger materials are based on controlling defects to impede the motion of …

Room-temperature ductile inorganic semiconductor

X Shi, H Chen, F Hao, R Liu, T Wang, P Qiu… - Nature Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Ductility is common in metals and metal-based alloys, but is rarely observed in inorganic
semiconductors and ceramic insulators. In particular, room-temperature ductile inorganic …

[HTML][HTML] Nanostructural metallic materials: Structures and mechanical properties

LG Sun, G Wu, Q Wang, J Lu - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
The trade-off of strength and ductility of metals has long plagued materials scientists. To
resolve this issue, great efforts have been devoted over the past decades to develo** a …

Phase engineering of nanostructural metallic materials: Classification, structures, and applications

J Gu, F Duan, S Liu, W Cha, J Lu - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Metallic materials are usually composed of single phase or multiple phases, which refers to
homogeneous regions with distinct types of the atom arrangement. The recent studies on …

[HTML][HTML] The mechanisms of grain growth of Mg alloys: a review

Q Chen, R Chen, J Su, Q He, B Tan, C Xu… - Journal of Magnesium …, 2022 - Elsevier
Grain growth directly influences the plasticity and strength of Mg alloys. As the grain size
decreases from the microscale to the nanoscale, the plasticity of Mg alloys continually …

Beating hydrogen with its own weapon: Nano-twin gradients enhance embrittlement resistance of a high-entropy alloy

H Luo, W Lu, X Fang, D Ponge, Z Li, D Raabe - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys have shown exceptional damage tolerance at cryogenic temperatures.
Here we report that this essential property can be maintained even when exposing the …

Plastic anisotropy and associated deformation mechanisms in nanotwinned metals

Z You, X Li, L Gui, Q Lu, T Zhu, H Gao, L Lu - Acta Materialia, 2013 - Elsevier
Anisotropic plastic deformation in columnar-grained copper in which preferentially oriented
nanoscale twins are embedded is studied by experimental testing, crystal plasticity modeling …

Defective twin boundaries in nanotwinned metals

YM Wang, F Sansoz, T LaGrange, RT Ott, J Marian… - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
Coherent twin boundaries (CTBs) are widely described, both theoretically and
experimentally, as perfect interfaces that play a significant role in a variety of materials …