Deformation twinning is an important plastic carrier competing with the ordinary dislocation
slip in a broad class of crystalline solids, which critically controls the mechanical properties …

The experimental determination of critical stresses for yielding and plastic flow is of upmost
importance for the understanding of the atomic-scale mechanical behaviors of nanoscale …

Grain boundary (GB) plasticity dominates the mechanical behaviours of nanocrystalline
materials. Under mechanical loading, GB configuration and its local deformation geometry …

An SEM in situ uniaxial tensile testing setup allowing HR-EBSD acquisition during
deformation was used to study the extension twinning mechanism in magnesium (Mg) at the …

Metals containing abundant coherent twin boundaries (TBs) are able to sustain substantial
plastic deformation without fracture due to shear-induced TB migration and sliding …

Spreading twins throughout nano metals has been proved to effectively mediate the
mechanical behaviors in face-centered-cubic (fcc) metals. However, the experimental …

Penta-twinned nanomaterials often exhibit unique mechanical properties. However, the
intrinsic deformation behavior of penta-twins remains largely unclear, especially under the …

This study aims to characterize the mechanical response of thick Al whiskers under tension.
Wire‐shaped whiskers are fabricated by stress‐induced migration using an original sample …

The complex interaction of crystalline defects leads to strain hardening in bulk metals.
Metals with high stacking fault energy (SFE), such as aluminum, tend to have low strain …

Residual elastic strains imposed on atomically thin films coated onto substrate materials
cause changes in the electronic structures of such films. This knowledge has been …