Grain-boundary kinetics: A unified approach

J Han, SL Thomas, DJ Srolovitz - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Grain boundaries (GBs) are central defects for describing polycrystalline materials, and
playing major role in a wide-range of physical properties of polycrystals. Control over GB …

Stability of nanocrystalline metals: The role of grain-boundary chemistry and structure

CA Schuh, K Lu - Mrs Bulletin, 2021 - Springer
Nanocrystalline metals are transitioning from laboratory curiosities to engineering materials,
in large part due to advances in improving their stability, making their exceptional properties …

Observations of grain-boundary phase transformations in an elemental metal

T Meiners, T Frolov, RE Rudd, G Dehm, CH Liebscher - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The theory of grain boundary (the interface between crystallites, GB) structure has a long
history and the concept of GBs undergoing phase transformations was proposed 50 years …

Direct imaging of atomistic grain boundary migration

J Wei, B Feng, R Ishikawa, T Yokoi, K Matsunaga… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Grain boundary (GB) migration plays an important role in modifying the microstructures and
the related properties of polycrystalline materials, and is governed by the atomistic …

Grain boundary plasticity initiated by excess volume

Q Zhu, Q Zhao, Q Huang, Y Chen, S Suresh… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Grain boundaries (GBs) serve not only as strong barriers to dislocation motion, but also as
important carriers to accommodate plastic deformation in crystalline solids. During …

Predicting phase behavior of grain boundaries with evolutionary search and machine learning

Q Zhu, A Samanta, B Li, RE Rudd, T Frolov - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
The study of grain boundary phase transitions is an emerging field until recently dominated
by experiments. The major bottleneck in the exploration of this phenomenon with atomistic …

Kwinking as the plastic forming mechanism of B19′ NiTi martensite

H Seiner, P Sedlák, M Frost, P Šittner - International Journal of Plasticity, 2023 - Elsevier
Irreversible plastic forming of B19′ martensite of the NiTi shape memory alloy is discussed
within the framework of continuum mechanics. It is suggested that the main mechanism …

Reconciling grain growth and shear-coupled grain boundary migration

SL Thomas, K Chen, J Han, PK Purohit… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Conventional models for grain growth are based on the assumption that grain boundary
(GB) velocity is proportional to GB mean curvature. We demonstrate via a series of …

3D printing of fine-grained aluminum alloys through extrusion-based additive manufacturing: Microstructure and property characterization

F Liu, P Dong, AS Khan, Y Zhang, R Cheng… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) has the potential to transform manufacturing by enabling
previously unthinkable products, digital inventory and delivery, and distributed …

Grand canonically optimized grain boundary phases in hexagonal close-packed titanium

E Chen, TW Heo, BC Wood, M Asta, T Frolov - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Grain boundaries (GBs) profoundly influence the properties and performance of materials,
emphasizing the importance of understanding the GB structure and phase behavior. As …